Venice: The Glories of

January 24, 2022, 7:00 pm

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Exploring Music focuses on sounds of the city, water, and love in Venice. Bill explores the magical city that inspired music of the late Renaissance, Baroque, and the beginning of Italian opera. From Monteverdi and Orlando di Lasso, Bill includes religious and secular music and continues with two major Venetian influences: Adrian Willaert of Dutch descent and the Roman composer Palestrina. Other composers featured in the week are Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Verdi, and more.

Playlist

Episode 1

Monteverdi, Claudio: Vespro della beata virgine, Sonata sopra “Sancta Maria”
Cambridge King’s College Choir and London Early Music Consort
Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
EMI 65339
2:42

Lasso, Orlando di: Mass Qual donna, Kyrie
Christ Church Cathedral Choir
Lassus Masses and Motets
Nimbus records NI 5150
2:38

Lasso, Orlando di: Gallans qui par terre; Un jour l’amant
Toronto Consort
Orlando Di Lasso: Chansons & Madrigals – The Toronto Consort
Dorian 80149
2:43

Willaert, Adrian: Pater Noster, Ave Maria
Capella Currende/Erik van Nevel
Renaissance of the Spirit (The Music of Orlando Di Lasso and His Contemporaries)
Tel 80521
6:05

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Pope Marcellus Mass
Kyrie and Gloria (excerpt)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Willcocks
Baroque Choral Works
EMI 65339
1:10

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Pope Marcellus Mass
Kyrie and Gloria

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Willcocks
Baroque Choral Works
EMI 65339
9:41

Gabrieli, Giovanni: Sonata pian’e forte
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland Brass Ensembles
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
Sony 62353
4:16

Gabrieli, Giovanni: Jubilate Deo
Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner
Philips 446116
4:54

Cima, Giovanni: Sonata per il Violino
Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, lute; John Tull, harpsichord and organ
Fantastic Style (17th C. Violin Music)
HM 907211
5:17

Gabrieli, Giovanni: Canzon duodecimi toni;
Canzon à 12 in echo

Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland Brass Ensembles
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
Sony 62353
7:20

Episode 2

Gabrielli, Giovanni: Ricercare del duodecimo tuono
Wallace Collection/Wright
Gabrieli and St Mark’s (Venetian Brass Music)
Nimbus 5236
01:40

Monteverdi, Claudio: Madrigals from Book III
II, IV, VI

La Venexiana/Cavina
The Complete Madrigal Books
GCD 920929
10:01

Monteverdi, Claudio: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
I, II, III, IV
The Monteverdi Choir; London Oratory Junior Choir;
His Majesty’s Sagbuts and Cornetts; English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
Vespro Della Beata Vergine – Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Marien Vesper
Archiv 429565
18:48

Monteverdi, Claudio: Magnificat
The Monteverdi Choir; London Oratory Junior Choir;
His Majesty’s Sagbuts and Cornetts; English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
Vespro Della Beata Vergine – Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Marien Vesper
Archiv 429565
17:31

Gabrielli, Giovanni: Canzon Septimi Octavi Toni, c.182
Wallace Collection/Wright
Gabrieli and St Mark’s (Venetian Brass Music)
Nimbus 5236
1:40

Episode 3

Monteverdi, Claudio: L’Orfeo (excerpts-opening)
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists;
His Majesty’s Sagbuts and Cornetts/Gardiner
Johnson, Baird, Dawson, von Otter, soloists
Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
Archiv 419250
11:58

Strozzi, Barbara: “Bella madre d’amore,” “Chi di noi,”
“La Venexiana”

Primo Libro de’ Madrigali
Cantus 9612
5:40

Schütz, Heinrich: Fili mi, Absalon”
Period instrument ensemble, van der Kamp, bass
Cantatas For Bass – Harry Van Der Kamp
Sony 68264
6:10

Monteverdi, Claudio: The Coronation of Poppea: Act II excerpts
English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
d’Artegna, McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, soloists
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Archiv 447 088
9:07

Monteverdi, Claudio: The Coronation of Poppea
Final Scenes

English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, soloists
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Archiv 447 088
12:00

 

Episode 4

Cavalli, Francesco: La Calisto: “Ardo, sospiro e piango”
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Leppard; von Stade, soprano
Recital: Frederica Von Stade – Cavalli, Monteverdi, Mozart
Erato 98504
3:32

Castello, Dario: Sonata No. 1
Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, theorbo; John Toll, harpsichord, organ
Fantastic Style (17th C. Violin Music)
HM 907211
4:45

Vivaldi, Antonio: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 3 No.11
L’Estro Armonico RV 565

English Concert/ Pinnock
Standage, violin; Wilcock, violin; Linden, violoncello

Vivaldi Concertos/ The English Concert
Archiv 423094
8:16

Vivaldi, Antonio: Sinfonia in B Minor, RV 169: “al Santo Sepolcro”
Tafelmusik/Lamon
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons 
Sony 48251
4:00

Vivaldi, Antonio: Bassoon Concerto in C, RV 478
I Solisti Italiana; Milan Turkovic, bassoon
5 Bassoon Concerti
Den 81757-9528
8:17

Vivaldi, Antonio: Flute Concerto, “Il gardellino,” I.
English Concert/Pinnock; Beznosiuk, flute
Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos Op 10
Archiv 423702
3:56

Vivaldi, Antonio: The Four Seasons, Op.8 No.4: Winter
English Concert/Pinnock; Standage, violin
Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Concerto For Oboe and Violin
Archiv 474616
7:45

Episode 5

Vivaldi, Antonio: The Four Seasons, Op.8 No. 1: Spring, I. Allegro
English Concert/Pinnock; Standage, violin
Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Concerto for Oboe and Violin
Archiv 474616
1:59

Vivaldi, Antonio: The Four Seasons, Op.8 No. 1: Spring, II. and III
English Concert/Pinnock; Standage, violin
Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Concerto for Oboe and Violin
Archiv 474616
6:17

Vivaldi, Antonio: Stabat Mater (excerpt)
Concertgebouw/Negri; Kowalski, countertenor
Sacred Music for Solo Voices and Orchestra Vol. 2
Philips 432 091-2
1:00; 2:21

Vivaldi, Antonio: Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu
Atlanta Symphony/Chamber Chorus/Shaw
Gloria – Magnificat
Tel 80194
5:09; 2:00

Wagner, Richard: Tristan und Isolde (excerpt)
Wiener Philharmoniker/Solti
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Decca 470 814
1:00


Rossini, Gioachino: The Italian girl in Algiers; Overture
Philharmonia/ Giulini
Rossini: Overtures Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia
EMI 62804
7:59

Verdi, Giuseppe: Rigoletto: “La donne e mobile,” “Bella figlia dell’ amore”
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Perlea
Merrill, Peters & Bjorling soloists

Verdi: Rigoletto – Perlea, Merrill, Peters, Bjoerling, Tozzi
RCA 60172
7:03

Verdi, Giuseppe: La Traviata; Act III – Prelude and Finale
Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Solti; Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Beesley, Knight, and Nucci
Verdi: La Traviata / Solti, Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, Et Al
London 448119
8:02

Gabrieli, Giovanni: Canzona Per Sonare No. 27
Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland Brass Ensembles
The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
Sony 62353
2:00