Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s
This episode: new releases from Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Les Épopées and Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra & Choir conducted by Roman Válek.
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
1. Responsorium: ‘Deus in adjutorium meum intende’
2. Psalm ‘Dixit Dominus secondo’ (SV 264)
Performing: Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre
(2 CD: ‘Monteverdi Testamento’, Château de Versailles CVS 145, 2024)
Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre (1633-1678)
3. Air de cour: ‘Forêts solitaires et sombres’
Performing: Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano. Ensemble Les Épopées conducted by Stéphane Fuget
(CD: ‘Pour être heureux en amour’, Ramée RAM 2302, 2024)
František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704–1774)
4. ‘Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum’
5. Part I ‘Ouverture in C major’
Performing: Romana Kružíková, soprano. Lucie Karafiátová, alto. Matúš Šimko, tenor. Jiří Miroslav Procházka, bass. Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra & Choir conducted by Roman Válek
(CD: ‘Tůma Vesperæ’, Supraphon SU 43522, 2024)
