An educational programme featuring early music.
The travel diaries of Charles Burney (1726-1814). The journey through France and Italy: Venice. Today we follow Burney to Venice, the city of the renowned girls’ schools and of San Marco and its bandmasters.
In Venice, Burney hears music by Baldassare Galuppi, Benedetto Marcello (pictured) and female composer Magdalene Lombardini Sirmen.
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
1. “Arripe alpestri in vallem”, for alto and strings
– Arripe alpestri in vallem
– Ah! Quo fugio, quo vado?
– Sereni affectus mei
– Alleluia
Il Seminario musicale led by Gérard Lesne, countertenor
(CD Baldassare Galuppi Motets. Virgin Classics VC 5 45030)
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Benedetto Marcello
2. Cantate “Chiaro e limpido fonte”
– Recitativo: Chiaro e limpido fonte
– Aria: al partir della fronte serena
– Recitativo: voi pur leggiere aurette
– Aria: Un solo resiro
– Recitativo: Mirtillo. A che si cerca
– Duetto: Dunque voi cristalli errant
– Ricitativo: ma, che pianger, Mirtillo?
– Duetto: La nobile luce
Phillippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor. Les Arts Florissants
(CD Duetti Virgin Classics VC 5 099907 094323)
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818)
3. String Quartet nr. 5 in F Minor
– Larghetto-allegro-larghetto
– Minuetto
Allegri String Quartet
(CD Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen. Cala CACD 1019)
Featured image: Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
