Playlist 2025-07-20

This Week’s Links

Angela Hewitt (piano) Interview in The Guardian

Henry Purcell – DIDO AND AENEAS

First Hour

John Farmer (c.1570-c.1601), Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623), Hark, all ye lovely saints above, Quink Vocal Ensemble, Telarc, 80328, ENGLISH MADRIGALS
William Boyce (1711-1779), Overture #7 in G, Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd, Chandos, 6531, WILLIAM BOYCE OVERTURES 1-9
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), Salvator mundi (I) (Savior of the World), Stile Antico, Harmonia Mundi, HMU 807572, THE PHOENIX RISING

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Gordian Knot Unty’d Z.597, Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Kevin Mallon, Naxos, 8.570149,
PURCELL: THEATRE MUSIC VOL.1

William Byrd (c.1540-1623), The Earl of Oxford’s March & John, come kiss me now, Aries Brass Quintet, Centaur, 2083, THE ARIES BRASS QUINTET

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), Harpsichord Concerto in C, Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra, Paul Nicholson, Paul Nicholson – harpsichord, Hyperion, 66509, ENGLISH ORPHEUS VOL.7: THOMAS ARNE SIX FAVOURITE CONCERTOS

Second Hour

Dario Castello (c.1590-c.1658), Sonata quarta for violin 1 and violetta, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music, AAM005, DARIO CASTELLO SONATE CONCERTATE IN STIL MODERNO, LIBRO PRIMO

Charles Macklean (c.1712-1765), Sonata XII in B, Alison Melville – traverso and recorder, Charlotte Nediger – harpsichord, Kirk Elliott – harp & guitar, Mary-Katherine Finch – cello, Ben Grossman – percussion, Early Music, 7761, SHE’S SWEETEST WHEN SHE’S NAKED: FLUTE MUSIC OF 18TH C. SCOTLAND

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Organ Concerto #5 in F Op.4 HWV293, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Joshua Rifkin, Peter Hurford – organ, London, 414604, HANDEL ORGAN CONCERTOS OP.4

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Dido & Aeneas – Incidental Music, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 77231, H.PURCELL * INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Orchestral Suite #2 in a after BWV1067, Ensemble Sonnerie, Gonzalo X .Ruiz – oboe, AVIE, 2171, ORCHESTRAL SUITES FOR A YOUNG PRINCE

Third Hour

Johann Vierdanck (c.1605-1646), Canzona #21 in C, Parnassi Musici, violins, bassoon, lute, organ, cpo, 777205, CAPRICCI, CANZONI UND SONATEN ROSTOCK 1641

John Banister (c.1624-1679), Another Division on a Ground, David Douglass – violin, Paul O’Dette – lute, Andrew Lawrence King – harp, Harmonia Mundi, 907186, APOLLO’S BANQUET

Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787), Fugue in D (world premiere recording), Ensemble Diderot, Audax Records, ADX13726, THE BERLIN ALBUM

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Concerto Grosso #11 in A op.6, Handel and Haydn Society (on authentic instruments), Christopher Hogwood, Avie, 2065, HANDEL 6 CONCERTI GROSSI OP.3 & 12 CONCERTI GROSSI OP.6

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729), Chaconne in a & L’Inconstante, Chaconne, Yonit Kosovske – harpsichord,, Yonit Kosovske, 2010, LA GRACIEUSE FRENCH CHACONNES, PASSACAILLES & PRELUDES

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Toccata in d BWV913, Angela Hewitt – piano, Hyperion, 67310, BACH: THE TOCCATAS / ANGELA HEWITT

Fourth Hour

Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707), The King’s March & Prince of Denmark’s March, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Newman, Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, Sony, 66244, WYNTON MARSALIS – IN GABRIEL’S GARDEN

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), Suite #14: allemande, minuet, & passagaille, David Russell – guitar, Telarc, TEL-33223-02, THE GRANDEUR OF THE BAROQUE

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), L’Omphale Suite in e TWV55:e8, Arion Ensemble (Montreal, Canada), Jaap ter Linden, Early Music, EMC CD 7766, TELEMANN: LES TRESORS CACHES

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Spera si mio caro bene Aria in B minor, arr. from Admeto HWV 22, opera, 1727, La R veuse, Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton, Harmonia Mundi, 905322, LONDON CIRCA 1720 – CORELLI’S LEGACY

Carl Rosier (1640-1725), Suite for 3 violins, John Holloway – violin, Stanley Ritchie – violin, Andrew Manze – violin, Harmonia Mundi, 7907091, PACHELBEL CANON & OTHER 17TH C.MUSIC FOR 3 VIOLINS

Willem de Fesch (1687-1760), Sonata op.8 #5, Trio de L’Oustal, NM Classics, 92101, EARLY MUSIC FROM THE NETHERLANDS

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