As of today, 23 June 2019, Documento, an educational programme about Early Music, will be scheduled every Sunday afternoon. In this episode: Barbara Strozzi, born 400 years ago and Christopher Simpson, died 350 years ago.
In today’s programme, we celebrate Barbara Strozzi’s birthday, she was born in 1619 and we remember the year of Christopher Simpson’s death, he died in 1669.
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
From Diporti di Euterpe:
1. Lagrime mie
2. Pensaci ben mio core
Emanuela Galli, soprano. Ensemble Galilei conducted by Paul Beier
(CD Barbara Strozzi – Diporti Di Euterpe, Stradivarius Str 33487, 1998)
Christopher Simpson
Christopher Simpson (1602/06-1669)
3. Prelude and Divisions on a ground
Scaramouche
(CD Henry Purcell and his time, Channel Classics CCS 4792, 1992)
Christopher Simpson
4. From The Division Viol: Divisions on a ground in d minor
Saskia Coolen and Rainer Zipperling, viola da gamba
(CD Divisions and Fantasias, Globe GLO 5227, 2007)
Barbara Strozzi
From Diporti di Euterpe:
5. A pena il sol en
6. Sino alla morte
Emanuela Galli, soprano. Ensemble Galilei conducted by Paul Beier
(CD Barbara Strozzi – Diporti Di Euterpe, Stradivarius Str 33487)
