This hour features new, special CDs with early music. Today, two CDs: ‘Cara Sposa – Mr. Handel’s delight on Music & Love’ and ‘Jean-Marie Leclair: Concerti per violino’.
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
1. From: Rinaldo, opera seria in tre atti, Aria di Almirena ‘Lascia ch’io pianga
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, soprano. Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte conducted by Roberto Zapellon
2. From: Rinaldo, opera seria in tre atti, Aria largo di Rinaldo: Cara sposa
3. From: Drama per Musica: Aria di Ariodante: Scherza infida
Le Petit Concert Baroque: Chani and Nadja Lesaulnier, harpsichord
4. From: Rinaldo, opera seria in tre atti, Aria di Almirena ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor. Ensemble Matheus conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi (violin)
(CD Cara Sposa, Mr. Handel’s delight on Music & Love. Fra Bernardo fb 2033970, 2020)
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
5. Concerto opus 10 No.1 in B-flat major
– Allegro
– Andante
– Giga. Allegro ma non troppo
6. Concerto opus 7 No.1 in D minor
– Allegro
– Aria. Gratioso
– Vivace
La Cetra Barockorchester with Leila Schayegh, violin
(CD J.M. Leclair – Concerti per violino. Glossa GCD 924204, 2019)
