Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s
This hour we share new albums by La Morra, Ars Antiqua Austria, Leila Schayegh, Lucile Boulanger and Simone Vallerotonda.
Late-medieval music from Kraków (PL) by anonymous composers
1. Postaris in presepio / Maria amplioribus
2. Maria en mitissima
3. Salve thronus trinitatis
Performers: La Morra
(CD: ‘Mirabilia Musica’, Ramée RAM2008, 2022)
Franz Joseph Aumann (1728-1797)
4. Parthia in C major a Violinis 2, Alto Viola, Clarinis 2, Basso con Tympano
Performers: Ars Antiqua Austria conducted by Gunar Letzbor
(CD: ‘Chamber Music in the Abbey of St. Florian’, Challenge Classics CD 72876, 2021)
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
5. Violin concerto in F major Opus 10/4
Performers: Leila Schayegh, violin. La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
(CD: ‘Concerti per Violino’, Glossa GCD 924206, 2022)
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
6. Moderato in D minor for viola da gamba solo
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
7. Opening sequence violin sonata BWV 1003 (trans. viola da gamba)
Performer: Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba
(CD: ‘Solo Bach-Abel’, Alpha 783, 2022)
Robert de Visée (1650-1725)
8. Prélude
François Couperin (1668-1733)
9. Les Barricades mystérieuses
Performer: Simone Vallerotonda, lute
(CD: ‘Méditation’, Arcana A496, 2022)
