Your Sunday repose with pleasant early music; special delights from 5 centuries of music history. This Sunday, a motet by Charpentier, Italian music from the time of Monteverdi, coral preludes by Bach and a French chanson from the 13th-century.
1. Louis Marchand (1669-1732).
– Fugue.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704).
– Motet: Quemadmodum desiderat cervus (H. 174).
Ensemble Pierre Robert led by Frédéric Desenclos, organ.
(Alpha 138, 2008)
2. Giovanni Battista Riccio (ca.1570-ca.1630).
– Sonata a 4.
Biagio Marini (1597-1665).
– La Foscarina, sonata a 3, con il tremolo.
Carlo Filago (1589-1644).
– Confitemini Domino.
Giovanni Picchi (ca.1571-1643).
– Canzon Decima Quinta a 6.
Constanze Backes and Gerlinde Saemann, soprano. Hermann Oswald, tenor. Markus Flaig, bass. Instrumenta Musica led by Ercole Nisini, trombone.
(Ramée RAM 0805, 2008)
3. Bernard de Ventadorn (13th century).
– Ben m’an perdut.
Millenarium: Carole Matras, vocals and harp. Christophe Deslinges, organetto. Thierry Gomar, percussion.
(Ricercar 233462 / RIC 210, 2001)
4. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
– Choralvorspiel BWV 659 "Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland".
– Andante from: Trio BWV 528a a 2 Clavier e Pedale.
– Choralvorspiel BWV 649 "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ".
– Adagio from: Trio BWV 583 a 2 Clavier e Pedale.
– Choralvorspiel BWV 645 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme".
Les Basses Réunies: Bruno Cocset, viola ‘Bettera’. Richard Myron, contrabass. Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord and organ.
(Alpha 139, 2008)
wall painting in Krems, Rottmayer
