Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s. This time J.S. Bach by Toshiyuki Shibata and Anthony Romaniuk, Christoph Willibald Gluck by Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel by Il Pomo d’Oro.
. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
– Flute sonata in B minor, BWV 1030
Performed by: Toshiyuki Shibata, traverso. Anthony Romaniuk, fortepiano
(CD: ‘Sonatas, Fantasias, Improvisations’, Fuga Libera FUG792, 2021/2022)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
2. Aria ‘Se mai senti’ uit La clemenza di Tito
3. Aria ‘Divinités du Styx’ uit Alceste
Performed by: Sandrine Piau (2), soprano. Véronique Gens (3), soprano. Le Concert de la Loge conducted by. Julien Chauvin
(CD: ‘Rivales’, Alpha no. 824, 2022)
4. Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
– Mandolin Concerto in G major.
Performed by: Raffaele La Ragione, mandoline. Il Pomo d’Oro o.l.v. Francesco Corti
(CD: ‘Mandolin on Stage’, Arcana no. A524, 2022)
