A Sunday hour with early music goodies. Today we have a broadcast on birds, mostly from the Baroque with an excursion to the Middle Ages.
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca 1620 – 1680)
1. Violin sonata in a minor “cu cu”
Johann Jakob Walther (ca 1650 – 1717)
2. Scherzo d’augelli con il cuccu
Les Passions de l’Ame conducted by Meret Lüthi
(CD: Schabernack: a treasure trove of musical jokes. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88985415492, 2017)
Walther von der Vogelweide (ca 1170 – ca 1230)
3. Nachtanz im Wiener Hofton
4. Der Stuol ze Rôme
5. Estampie über den goldenen Ton
Per-Sonat conducted by Sabine Lutzenberger
(CD: Lieder von Macht & Liebe. Christophorus CHR 77394, 2015)
Alessandro Poglietti (? – 1683)
6. Ricercar per lo rossignolo
7. Aria bizarra del rossignolo
8. Imitatione der medesimo uccello
9. Canzon und capricio Über das Henner und Hanergeschrey
Roberto Loreggian, harpsichord
(CD: Alessandro Poglietti: Il Rossignolo. Tactus TC 621601, 2012, originally 1998)
Tarquinio Merula (1594 – 1665)
10. La merula opus 1
11. La merula opus 12
12. La lusignuola
13. La gallina
14. Ruggiero (additionally)
Musica Fiorita conducted by Daniele Dolci
(CD: Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni, danze e variationi. Tactus TC.591303, 2013)
