A Sunday hour with early music goodies. It has almost become a tradition to treat you to a programme filled with birds in May, so that is what we will be doing today. Today’s episode features a lot of soprano singing and recorder chanting.
Dorothee Mields en Stefan Temmingh
Anonymous
1 This merry peasant spring
Mr. Quignard (18th century)
2 Printemps
John Bartlet (fl 1606 – 1610)
3 Sweet birds deprive us never
Dorothee Mields, soprano. Stefan Temmingh, recorder. Wiebke Weidanz, harpsichord. Axel Wolf, lute. Domen Marincic, viola da gamba. The Gentleman’s Band
(CD: Birds. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88875141202, 2015)
Francesco Mancini (1672–1737)
4 Sonata No. 14 in G minor
– I Comodo
– II Fuga
– III Larghetto
– IV Allegro
Maurice Steger, recorder. Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Stefano Barneschi
(CD: Baroque Twitter. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88985497582, 2018)
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart de Ventadorn (ca.1130–ca.1190)
5 Can vei la lauzeta mover
Anonymous
6 En mai au douz tens nouvel
Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg
(CD: Trobadors – trouvères – Minnesänger. Christophorus CHE 0148-2, Music Import Service CD 74519, 1986 / 2020)
Andrea Stefano Fioré (1686–1732)
7 Usignolo che col volo
Leonardo Vinci (ca 1690–1730)
8 Rondinella che dal nido
Nuria Rial, soprano. Maurice Steger, recorder. Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Stefano Barneschi
(CD: Baroque Twitter. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88985497582, 2018)
Pietro Torri (1650–1737)
9 Ismene – son rosignolo
Giuseppe Fedeli (ca 1680–1733)
10 Warbling the birds enjoying
Dorothee Mields, soprano. Stefan Temmingh, recorder. The Gentleman’s Band
(CD: Birds. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88875141202, 2015)
Additional:
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
11 La poule
Stefan Temmingh, recorder. La Folia Barockorchester
(CD: Birds. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88875141202, 2015)
On the highlighted photo: Concert of birds (Frans Snyders)
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