A Sunday hour with early music goodies. Music from different centuries, by Johann Schobert, who died 250 years ago, Nicolaus a Kempis, Guillaume Boni and Samuel Capricornus.
We start off with music from the transition from baroque to classical by Johann Schobert, who died 250 years ago. Through earlier symphonies of 17th-century Flemish composer Nicolaus a Kempi, we travel to 16th-century Toulouse with sonnets by Pierre Ronsard, set to music by Guillaume Boni. We conclude with Samuel Capricornus, a Bohemian who lived from 1628 to 1665.
Johann Schobert (ca 1735 – 1767)
1 Quatuor op. 7 no 3 in G
– Andante
– Tempo di menuetto
Concerto Rococo conducted by Jean Patrice Brosse, harpsichord
(CD: Schobert: Quatre quatuos pour clavecin, 2 violons et basse. Pierre Verany 792031, 1992; Arion, 2010)
Nicolaes a Kempis (ca 1600 – 1676)
2 Symphonia per cornetto, 2 violini e bassa viola
3 Symphoniae ad hororem S Francisci Xavieri
4 Symphoniae op. 2 no 4, supra Cuc cuc
Ensemble La Fenice led by Jean Tubéry, cornet
(CD: Musicae belgicae: L’atelier de Rubens. Ars Produktion ARS 38 216, 2016)
Guillaume Boni (died after 1594)
5 Las! Pleust à Dieu
6 Rossignol, mon mignon
7 O ma belle maistresse
8 Douce beauté
Ensemble Per cantar e sonar led by Stéphane Caillat
(CD: Les amours de Pierre de Ronsard. Arion ARN 55455, 1999, recording 1982)
Samuel Capricornus (1628 – 1665)
9 Dulcissime, amantissime
10 O tu vita felicissima
11 O felix jucunditas
Tanya Aspelmeier, soprano. Barbara Ostertag, mezzo-soprano. Jean-François Lombard, haut-contre. Benoît Haller, tenor and musical direction. Benoît Arnould, bass. La Chapelle Rhénane
(CD: Theatrum Musicum & Leçons de ténèbres. K617 188, 2016)
12 Ciaconna in D
Ensemble Echo du Danube led by Christian Zincke
(CD: Das Partiturbuch. Naxos 8.557679, 2006)
