Riga Baroque Ensemble (credit: EBU)
Riga Baroque Ensemble presents Flemish composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco’s masterpiece of Dutch Baroque music, written for Maundy Thursday and unique in the genre due to its instrumentation. The first of the Trauer-Ode of Rigan Baroque composer Daniel Kahde. Recorded live in concert April 14, 2019, (Palm Sunday) in Radio Latvia’s Studio 1, Riga.
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Playlist
Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741) Text: Old Testament
Lamentations du Jeudi Saint,three cantatas for soprano, two cellos and basso continuo’
Lamentatio prima
– De lamentatione
– Defixae sunt in terra
– Sederunt in terra
– Defecerunt prae lacrimis
Lamentatio segunda
– Lamed. Matribus suis
– Mem – Cui comparabo te
– Prophetae tui viderunt tibi
– Samech
– Plauserunt super te
Lamentatio tertia
– Aleph, Beth
– In tenebrosis
Daniel Kahde (1631-1689)
Erste Trauer-Ode (First Mourning Ode)
ARTISTS
Riga Baroque Ensemble:
Aija Veismane-Garkeviča, soprano
Ilze Grudule, Danuta Ločmele, Baroque cello
Mārtiņš Garkevičs, theorbo
Veronika Rinkule, harpsichord