Lars Vogt, one of the most talented and internationally acclaimed pianists, died on September 5, 2022, after a valiant struggle with cancer.
Bach, Goldberg & Vogt
Playlist
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
ARTIST
Lars Vogt, piano
The World of Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultures of his time. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, and special guest artists in Ramon Llull: Times of Conquest, Dialogue, and Exhortation; a program …
Playlist
Anonymous
Mawachah Ya man Laibd Bihi Chamoulo (Taksim and Arab Dance)
Raimon de Miraval (1191-1229)
Aissi cum es genser Pascors
Anonymous
Fanfare (winds & percussion)
Raimon de Miraval
Ductia
Anonymous
Veri dulcis in tempore (codex from 1010)
Arabic Lament
Alphonse The Wise
Cantiga de Santa Maria, 100: Santa Maria, strela do dia
Anonymous
Ya Mariam el bekr, Arabic hymn to the Virgin
Mater Dei plena gratia / Mater, virgo pia / Eius
Istampitta:Belicha
Lauda di Cortona: Ave, donna santissima
Complaint of Jerusalem against Rome: Jerusalem se plaint et li païs
Mowachah Billadi Askara Mon abdi Llama
Conductus: Roma gaudins jubila
Teobaldo I de Navarra (1201-1253)
Deus est ainsi comme li pelicans
Anonymous
Quant ai lo mont consirat, spiritual chant
Taksim and Ottoman Dance
Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
El cant de Ramon: Lo Desconhort
Anonymous
Taksim-Conductus: O totius Asie Gloria, Regis Alexandria
Fanfara de Coronació, Te Deum
Jewish Complaint
Wind Dance
Piangeti christiani
Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Motet: Tribum / Quoniam secta / Merito hec patimur
Anonymous
Taksim, Ghazali
Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)
Veni Sanctus Spiritus
Anonymous
Propiñan de Malyor – Der Makam “Uzzäl usules Darb-i-feth’
Guillaume Dufay
Gloria Patri et Filio (Magnificat)
Anonymous
Dindirindin
Traditional
Apo xeno meros
PERFORMERS
Le Concert des Nations; La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Hespèrion XXI
FEATUED ARTISTS Waed Bouhassoun: vocals, oud
Lluís Vilamajó: tenor
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano
Pascal Bertin: countertenor
David Sagastume: countertenor
Pierre Hamon: flutes, pipe
Pedro Estevan: percussion
Moslem Rahal: ney
Hakan Güngör: kanun
Yurdal Tokcan: oud
Haïg Sarikouyoumdjia: duduk, ney
Dimitri Psonis: santur, moresca
Jordi Savall: Director
Opening & Closing Theme for Baroque&Before:
Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Piva, performed by Musica Reservata (Boston Skyline BSD 123)
Les Arts Florissants: Carissimi Monteverdi
Les Arts Florissants brings us a program of sacred vocal and instrumental works.
Playlist
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Selva morale e spirituale
– Beatus vir – Iste confessor – Salve Regina
Salamone Rossi (1570-ca 1630)
Sonata sopra l’aria di Ruggiero
Claudio Monteverdi
Selva morale e spirituale
– Laudate Dominum
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
Super flumina Babylonis
Claudio Monteverdi
Selva morale e spirituale
– Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzon quarta a 3
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
Jephte
ARTISTS
Natasha Schnur,Ellen Giacone: sopranos
Blandine de Sansal, mezzo-soprano
Mathilde Ortscheidt, contralto
Geoffroy Buffière, Edward Grint: basses
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew, conductor
Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David
Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Playlist
Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630)
Psalm 124
Ali Ufkî (1610-1675); Claude Goudimel (ca. 1540-1572)
Psalm 9
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 6
Ali Ufkî, Genevan Psalter
Psalm 6
Traditional Jewish
Psalm 113
Salamone Rossi
Psalm 118
Instrumental Improvisation
Psalm 2
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Psalm 7
Ali Ufkî, Genevan Psalter
Psalm 2
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Psalm 5
Salamone Rossi
Psalm 128
PERFORMERS
Sarband; Vladimir Ivanoff, Director
The King’s Singers
Signum Classics SIGCD065, 2005
Amazone: Jupiter Ensemble & Léa Desandre
Opera composers found irresistible the allure of the Amazons, the mythical race of female warriors whom no man could match in strength of body or mind.
Playlist
Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)
“Non posso far” from Lo schiavo di sua moglie
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
“Sinfonia” from Ercole amante
Francesco Provenzale
“Laciatemi morir” from Lo schiavo di sua moglie
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638-after 1692)
“Muove il piè, furia d’Averno” from Mitilene, regina delle Amazoni
Georg Caspar Schürmann (ca 1672-1751)
“Sinfonia pour la tempête” from Die getreue Alceste
Carlo Pallavicino (1630-1688)
“Vieni, corri, volami in braccio” & “Sdegni, furori barbari” from Antiope
Anne Danican Philidor (1681-1728)
“Venez, troupe guerrière” from Les amazones
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
“L’Américaine” from Suite d’un goût étranger
André Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749)
“Ô Mort! Ô triste mort” from Marthésie, reine des Amazones
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Overture, first movement from Ercole su’l Termodonte, RV 710
Georg Caspar Schürmann
“Non ha fortuna il pianto mio” from Die getreue Alceste
Antonio Vivaldi
Overture, second movement from Ercole su’l Termodonte RV 710
Giuseppe de Bottis (1678-1753)
“Lieti fiori” from Mitilene, regina delle Amazzoni
Antonio Vivaldi
Overture, third movement from Ercole su’l Termodonte RV 710
“Onde chiare che sussurate” from Ercole su’l Termodonte RV 710
“Scendero, volero, gridero” from Antiope
ARTISTS
Léa Desandre, mezzo-soprano
Jupiter Ensemble: Thomas Dunford lute & artistic director
Louise Ayrton, Augusta McKay Lodge, violin; Jasper Snow viola; Salomé Gasselin, viola da gamba; Arthur Cambreling, cello; Hugo Abraham; double bass; Violaine Cochard, harpsichord & organ;
Keyvan Chemirani, percussion
Dueling Viols: Vivaldi, Gregori, Dall’Abaco & Brescianello
Along with being known as a composer, Antonio Vivaldi was a renowned violin virtuoso; no further evidence is needed than the famous violin concertos The Four Seasons.
Playlist
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G for Two Violins and Two Cellos, RV 575
Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori (1663-1745)
Concerto grosso in g minor, Opus 2/9
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (1675-1742)
Concerto in B-Flat for Strings, Opus 5/4
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in G for Two Violins, RV516
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D for Two Violins and Two Cellos, RV 564
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (ca 1690-1758)
Concerto in G for Violin
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D for Two Violins
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
Chaconne in A (encore)
ARTISTS
Concerto Copenhagen
Adrian Chandler, conductor, violin
Fredrik From, violin
Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, cello
Hanna Loftsdóttir, cello
Concerto Italiano: Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel & Francesco Mancini
Founded in 1984, Concerto Italiano has earned the reputation as one of the finest ensembles to specialize in Baroque music. On this week’s edition of Baroque&Before, we’re treated to a select chamber group from Concerto Italiano, joined by soprano Sonia Tedla and bass Gabriele Lombardi, in works by Handel, three works by Handel’s older contemporary Alessandro Scarlatti plus another, formerly …
Playlist
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
“Clori mia, Dorino caro,” from Clori, Dorino e Amore
Sonia Tedla, soprano; Gabriele Lombardi, bass
Cello Sonata in d minor
Largo – Allegro – Piano – Presto
Per un momento solo
Sonia Tedla, soprano
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Che vai pensando HWV 184
Sonia Tedla, soprano; Gabriele Lombardi, bass
Suite in E minor, HWV 438
Allmand – Saraband – Jigg
Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) att. Handel
Dal fatale momento, HWV 101b
Gabriele Lombardi, bass
George Frideric Handel
Tacete, ohimè, tacete HWV 196
Sonia Tedla, soprano; Gabriele Lombardi, bass
ARTISTS
Concerto Italiano
Sonia Tedla, soprano
Gabriele Lombardi, bass
Marco Frezzato, cello
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
The Days & Seasons of Renaissance Mantua
Voces Suaves and Basel’s Capricornus Consort join forces for a program of madrigals and instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, and their contemporaries.
Playlist
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) – Fugge il verno dei dolori
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) – Ninfe leggiadre e voi almi pastori
Salamone Rossi (1570-ca 1630) – Riede la primavera
Claudio Monteverdi – O Primavera, gioventù dell’anno
Giaches de Wert – Vago augelletto, che cantando vai
Gasparo Zanetti (fl. 1625-45) – La Mantovana
Giaches de Wert – Questi odorati fiori; Un jour je m’en allais
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (ca 1550-ca 1622) – Cantiam, lieti cantiamo
Claudio Monteverdi – A quest’olmo, a quest’ombre ed a quest’onde; Hor che’l ciel e la terra
Giaches de Wert – Usciva omai dal molle e fresco grembo
Salamone Rossi – Sonata duodecima, sopra la Bergamasca
Claudio Monteverdi – Com’è dolce oggi l’auretta
Salamone Rossi – Sonata in dialogo, detta La Viena
Claudio Monteverdi – Quando l’alba in oriente
ARTISTS
Voces Suaves: Lia Andres, Christina Boner, Mirjam Wernli, sopranos; Jan Thomer, alto; Dan Dunkelblum, David Munderloh, tenors; Tobias Wicky, baritone; Davide Benetti, bass
Capricornus Consort, Basel: Ori Harmelin, theorbo; Éva Borhi, violin; Masako Art , harp; Silvia Tecardi, viola da gamba; Sebastian Wienand, organ
Josquin at the Vatican
The first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music worked for some five years as a papal cantor at the Sistine Chapel.
Playlist
Josquin des Prez (1455-1521)
Praeter Rerum Seriem
Missa Gaudeamus
– Gloria
Liber Generationis Jesu Christi
Factum Est Autem
Illibata Dei Virgo
ARTISTS
Ensemble De Labyrintho; Walter Testolin, director
Cantus: Nadia Caristi, Laura Fabris, cantus, Arianna Miceli
Countertenor: Andrea Arrivabene, Leonardo Malara
Altus: Massimo Altieri, Renato Grotto
Tenor: Giacomo Schiavo, tenor, Marco Scavazza, Antonio Orsini
Bassus: Guglielmo Buonsanti, Alberto Spadarotto, Giuliano Mazzini
La Foresta Incantata: Geminiani, Handel & Vivaldi
A program of well-known works by Handel and Vivaldi.
Playlist
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture to Rinaldo, HWV 7
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Five excerpts from La foresta incantata
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Organ Concerto in F, HWV 295: (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale)
Francesco Geminiani
Three excerpts from La foresta incantata
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in B flat, RV 362 (La caccia)
Sinfonia to Act III from La fida ninfa, RV 714
Francesco Geminiani
Three excerpts from La foresta incantata
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 (La notte)
Francesco Geminiani
Two excerpts from La foresta incantata
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
“Battaglia” from Rinaldo, HWV 7
ARTISTS
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor & violin