This Week’s Links
Arcangelo Corelli – composer, violinist, teacher
First Hour
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fugue on a Theme by Corelli in b BWV579, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, London, 440376, TIPPETT FANTASIA CONCERTANTE ON A THEME OF CORELLI * HOLST ST PAUL’S SUITE A FUGAL CONCERTO
Giovanni Reali (c.1681-after 1727), Folia (dedicated to Corelli), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Players of the Joyous Border Area), Erato, 85775, FOLLIE ALL’ITALIANA (ITALIAN FOLLIES)
William McGibbon (c.1690-1756), Sonata #5 in G IMITATING CORELLI, Chatham Baroque, Dorian, 90291, REEL OF TULLOCH: BAROQUE MUSIC OF SCOTLAND & IRELAND
Gasparo Visconti (1683-1713), Concerto for 2 Violins in Bb, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Ricardo Minasi, K&K Verlasanstalt, KuK110, CORELLI’S LEGACY
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739), Una Giga de Corelli, Paul O’Dette – baroque guitar, Pat O’Brien & Steve Player – guitars(?), Harmonia Mundi, 907212, JACARAS! 18TH C. SPANISH BAROQUE GUITAR MUSIC OF MURCIA
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739), Preludio Grabe (after Corelli), Paul O’Dette – baroque guitar, Harmonia Mundi, 907212, JACARAS! 18TH C. SPANISH BAROQUE GUITAR MUSIC OF MURCIA
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768), Sonata #5 in C, John Holloway – violin, Jaap ter Linden – cello, Lars Ulrik Mortensen – harpsichord, ECM, 1889, VERACINI SONATAS
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Sonata Corellisante 1 in F TWV42:F2, Rebel, Jorg-Michael Schwarz, Dorian, 90703, CORELLISANTE
Second Hour
Adrian Le Roy (c.1520-1598), Passemeze, Mindy Rosenfeld – Northern European Single-Row Harp, Ronn McFarlane – lute, Dorian Sono Luminus, DSL-92169, NINE NOTES THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (c.1525-1594), Cantantibus Organis (for St. Cecilia), Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell, Hyperion, 67099, PALESTRINA
John Blow (1649-1708), Begin The Song! – Overture, Hark How The Waken’d Strings, & Come Then, With Tuneful Breath, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, Hyperion, CDA68149, JOHN BLOW: AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR. HENRY PURCELL
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729), Sonata in d for violin (1707), Cecilia’s Circle, Julie Andrijeski – violin, Vivian Montgomery – harpsichord, Ann Marie Morgan – viola da gamba, Centaur, 2670, THY HAND HAS DONE ALL THIS: JUDITH AND OTHER WORKS OF LA GUERRE
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Song for St. Cecilia’s Day: overture, From harmony, from heav’nly harmony (chorus), The Trumpet’s loud clangour (tenor air & chorus), & As from the pow’r of sacred lays (soprano & chorus), Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle, Mary Bevan – soprano, Delphian, DCD34110, HANDEL SONG FOR SAINT CECILIA’S DAY
Third Hour
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), Lute Concerto in F SC 53: allegro, Tempesta di Mare (Sea Tempest), Richard Stone – lute, Chandos, CHAN0707, SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS LUTE CONCERTI (PREMIERE RECORDINGS)
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818), Sonata in f op.1 #6 (1770), The Vivaldi Project, Elizabeth Field – violin, Allison Nyquist – violin/viola, Stephanie Vial – cello, MSR Classics, MS1624, DISCOVERING THE CLASSICAL STRING TRIO VOL.4
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Suite in g: La poule (the hen), Angela Hewitt – piano, Hyperion, 67597, JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU KEYBOARD SUITES PIECES DE CLAVECIN
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), Overture in d for viole d’amour, L’Ensemble des Idees heureuses (Ensemble for Happy Ideas), Genevieve Soly, Helene Plouffe –
viole d’amore, Analekta, FL 2 3180, IDEES HEUREUSES GRAUPNER MUSIQUE INSTRUMENTALE ET VOCALE VOL.2
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Concerto in E for flute, oboe d’amore, viola d’amore, strings and continuo, Berlin Baroque Soloists, Rainer Kussmaul – violin, Emmanuel Pahud – flute, Albrecht Mayer – oboe d’amore, Wolfram Christ – viola d’amore, EMI, 7243557397, TELEMANN FLUTE CONCERTOS
Fourth Hour
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Cecilian Vespers:Psalm121/122: Laetatus sum: Fiat pax (Let there be peace), Nisi Dominus, & Gloria Patri, Philharmonia Chorale & Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Ryland Angel – countertenor, Gonzalo X. Ruiz – oboe, AVIE, 0048, THE CECILIAN VESPERS
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Hail, Bright Cecilia: Symphony & Hail, bright Cecilia, hail to thee!, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Wilson – countertenor, Julian Podger & Charles Daniels – tenors, Peter Harvey – bass, Deutsche Grammophon, 445882, “ODE FOR ST.CECILIA’S DAY”
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Alexander’s Feast: Overture, aria SOFTLY SWEET, & on Himmel kam, Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, Lynne Dawson – soprano, Arabesque, 6762, HANDEL ARRANGED BY MOZART
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Concerto Grosso in C Alexander’s Feast, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Philips, 454030, THE BEST OF HANDEL
Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729), Concerto for flute, oboe, violin, cello, theorbe, strings & b.c.S.226, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel, Deutsche Grammophon, 437549, HEINICHEN: DRESDEN CONCERTI GOEBEL, MUSICA ANTIQUA KOLN
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