Early music expert Kees Koudstaal pulls the most beautiful CDs with early and classical music for you from the shelves of his own CD shop.
1. Anonymous (18th century)
– ‘Lamentazione seconda p(er) Giovedì Santo la Sera’ (1781)
Performers: Miriam Feuersinger, soprano. Il Dolce Conforto conducted by Franziska Fleischanderl, salterio
(CD: Sacred Salterio, Christophorus CHR 77408, 2017)
2. Alessandro Scarlatti (1743-1805)
– Parts of the responsories and Johannes Passion
Performers: Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano. Salvo Vitale, bass. Chœur de Chambre de Namur and Millenium Orchestra conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcón
(CD: Alessandro Scarlatti Passio Secundum Johannem, Ricercar RIC378, 2017)
3. Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
– From the Stabat Mater: ‘Eja Mater’
Performers: Dorothee Mields, soprano. Salagon Quartet, Miriam Shalinsku, double bass
(CD: Boccherini Stabat Mater, Carus 83.470, 2017)
4. Thomas Oswald (1710-1769)
– ‘The Northern Hass’
– ‘The Murrays March’
5. Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
– ‘O Bessy Bell’ (Song IV)
Performers: Les Basses Réunies conducted by Bruno Cocset
(CD: Give Me Your Hand, Alpha 276, 2017)
6. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
– ‘Sehet, Jesu hat die Hand’ from the Matthäus Passion
Performers: Claire Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano. Dunedin Consort & Players conducted by John Butt
(CD: Matthew Passion, Linn CKD 313, 2017)
More information on the webshop of Kees Koudstaal can be find on the website of Prelude.
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