Playlist 2025-04-27

This Week’s Links

April is Poetry Month

National Garden Month

Francesca Caccini – composer

Anacreon (Greek poet)

Christina Day Martinson – violin

Laury Gutierrez – viola da gamba (Suzanne’s interview)

Orpheus

First Hour

Salomone Rossi (c.1570-1630), Eftach na sefatai (I open my lips in joyous song), New York Baroque, Eric Milnes, Dorian, 93220, SONGS OF SOLOMON: VOL. 2 HOLIDAY & FESTIVAL MUSIC

Christopher Simpson (c.1605-1669), Fantasia #4 in a: April (from The Monthes), Sophie Watillon – dessus de viole, Friederike Heumann & Brian Franklin – basses de viole, Matthias Spaeter – theorbo, Luca Guglielmi – organ, Alpha, 88, C. SIMPSON:THE SEASONS,THE MONTHES & OTHER DIVISIONS OF TIME – 1

Heinrich Franz Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704), Mystery Sonata #11 THE RESURRECTION, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson – violin, LINN, CKD501, HEINRICH BIBER THE MYSTERY SONATAS

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Hebe’s Feast: Suite, Les Arts Florissants (Flourishing Arts), William Christie, Erato, 3984-26129, MUSIQUE DE BALLET LES ARTS FLORISSANTS WILLIAM CHRISTIE

Christopher Simpson (c.1605-1669), Spring: Fancy, Ayre, & Galliard, The Sirius Viols, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 88875 190982, CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON THE FOUR SEASONS

Second Hour

Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Dov’vio credea (Where do I Believe), Audacium Baroque Ensemble, Gabriella di Laccio – soprano, drama musica, donne barocche, DONNE BAROCCHE

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Les Fetes de Polymnie (1745): suite, Tempesta di Mare, Chaconne, CHAN 0810, COMEDIE ET TRAGEDIE VOLUME TWO

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), L’Autunno (Autumn) Concerto op.8 #3, Apollo’s Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, Francisco Fullana – violin, AVIE, AV2485, THE FOUR SEASONS LE QUATTRO STAGIONI, OP.8

Julie Pinel (1710-1737), Boccage frais, La Donna Musicale, Laury Gutierrez, La, 2009, THE PLEASURES OF LOVE AND LIBATION: AIRS BY JULIE PINEL

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), ORFEO: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon, 437782, CLASSICAL HITS

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Anacreon Suite, Capella Savaria, Mary Terey-Smith, Naxos, 553746, RAMEAU ORCHESTRAL SUITES

Third Hour

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Sinfonia Il Giardino di rose, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Decca, 470650, IL GIARDINO DI ROSE SINFONIE & HARPSICHORD CONCERTOS

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Sonata in C RV801, Fioritura (Flowering), Steven Zohn – flute, Aldo Abreu – recorder, Suzanne De Serres – bassoon, Centaur, 2784, VIVALDI CONCERTOS * TELEMANN * BOISMORTIER

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746), Orchestral Suite #8 in C SPRING JOURNAL, L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, Michi Gaigg, cpo, 777 150, LE JOURNAL DU PRINTEMPS OP.1 SPRING DIARY

Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1663-1729), Sonata II, Margaret Marco – oboe, Elisa Williams Bickers – harpsichord, Hannah Collins – cello, Margaret Marco, 2023, HIDDEN GEMS VOL.2

Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726), Suite #7, airs du ballet flore ou de trianon, Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne, Harmonia Mundi, 901303, Delalande – Symphonies – Soupers du Roy

Fourth Hour

Joachim van den Hove (c.1567-1620), Allemande Monsieur, Orlando English Song, & Susanneken (from FLORIDA), Toyohiko Satoh – lute, NM Classics, 92016, LUTE MUSIC FROM THE NETHERLANDS

Johannes Schenck (1660-c.1720), Sonata Ottava in C, La Suave Melodia (The Suave Melody), Etcetera, KTC1356, IL GIARDINO ARMONICO (WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING)

James Oswald (1711-1769), Narcissus (Spring), Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Dorian, 80164, AIRS FOR THE SEASONS

Marin Marais (1656-1728), The Labyrinth, Spirit of the Rose, Naxos, 550750, MARAIS, SAINTE-COLOMBE: MASTERWORKS

Francois Couperin (1668-1733), La Vergers fleuris (The flowering orchards) & Les Rozeaux (The Reeds), Iddo Bar-Shai – piano, Mirare, MIR 195, LES OMBRES ERRANTES

Johann Melchior Molter (1696-1765), Concerto Pastorale in G, La Pieta, Angele Dubeau – violin, Analekta, AN2 8730, NOEL

John Wilbye (1574-1638), Flora gave me fairest flowers,
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Silver Swan
William Byrd (c.1540-1623), Though Amaryllis Dance in Green, Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, Collegium, 105, FLORA GAVE ME FAIREST FLOWERS

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