This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Two new CDs with music by contemporaries of G.F. Händel en J.G. Walther.
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
1. From Acis and Galathea, HWV 49:
– Sinfonia
– Accompagnata Ye verdant plains and woody mountains
– Air: Hush, ye pretty warbling choir
2. The Melancholy Nymph, HWV 228, no. 19
London Early Opera conducted by Bridget Cunningham. Kirsty Hopkins, soprano. Charles MacDougall, tenor
(CD Handel at Vauxhall, vol. 1. Signum Classics sigcd 428, 2016)
Georg Friedrich Händel
3. Orgelconcert opus 4 no. 2 in B-flat Major, HWV 290
– Sinfonia
– Allegro
– Adagio e staccato
– Allegro ma non presto
London Early Opera conducted by Bridget Cunningham. Daniel Moult, organ
(CD Handel at Vauxhall, vol. 1 Signum Classics sigcd 428)
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
4. Alcuni Variationi sopr’un Basso Contino del signor Corelli
Variatio 1 – Variatio 2 – Variatio 3 – Variatio 4
5. Concerto in G
– Preludio: Adagio-Allegro
– Largo
– Ritornello: Vivace
– Aria: Largo
– Vivace
Simone Stella, Francesco Zanin organ (2006) at the Church of Saint Antonio Abate, Padua
(CDbox Walther – Complete Organ Music, Brilliant Classics 94730/1, 2015)
Georg Friedrich Händel
6. The Advice
7. From Saul: Dead March
8. From: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: As steals the morn upon the night
London Early Opera led by Bridget Cunningham, with Sophie Bevan, soprano. Eleanor Dennis, soprano. Greg Tassel, tenor
(CD Handel at Vauxhall, vol. 1 Signum Classics sigcd 428)
