This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Two new CDs with late eighteenth-century music: fortepiano sonatas by Elaine Funaro and Mozart arias by Sandrine Piau.
Giovanni Benedetti Platti (1697-1763)
1. Sonata no. 7 in F major
Adagio – Allegro- Adagio – Allegro
Elaine Funaro, fortepiano (David Sutherland, after Christofori, 1726, Leipzig)
(CD Giovanni Benedetti Platti ‘il grande’ Sonatas/Elaine Funaro; Wildboar WLBR 9901)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
2. From: Don Giovanni, second act: Donna Anna: Crudele?… non mi dir
3. From: La finta giardiniera, first act: Sandrina: Geme la tortorella
4. From: Mitridate, re di Ponto, third act: Apasia: ah ben ne fui presaga… pallid’ombre
5. From: Il re Pastore, second act: Aminta: L’amero
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg conducted by Ivor Bolton. Sandrine Piau, soprano.
(CD Mozart desperate Heroines/Sandrine Piau; Naive V5366)
Giovanni Benedetti Platti (1697-1763)
6. Sonata no. 1 in D major
Adagio – Allegro – Adagio – Allegro
Elaine Funaro, harpsichord (after the German 18th-century style by David Jencks)
7. Sonata nro 10 in A minor
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro
Elaine Funaro, fortepiano (David Sutherland, after Christofori, 1726, Leipzig)
(CD Giovanni Benedetti Platti ‘il grande’ Sonatas/Elaine Funaro; Wildboar WLBR 9901)
