New CDs of Early Music
Wonderful music by violinist Cristina Prats Costa, who has released a CD entitled Spiritillo Mediterraneo, featuring lyrical music by José de Nebra, Biber, Striggio and Nicola Matteis. We also have a new CD of music by Josquin Desprez, released by the ensemble Cut Circle, conducted by Jesse Rodin.
Josquin Desprez’s motet Qui velatus facie fuisti, or “You Whose Face Was Veiled”, is associated with the Passion and consists of six sections:
- The mocking of Jesus, when his face was covered
- His condemnation and journey to the place of crucifixion
- The physical torture of the scourging
- The actual crucifixion
- The death of Jesus and his lying in the tomb
- A concluding hymn of praise and prayer to Christ as Redeemer
Josquin Desprez (1450–1521)
- Que vous ma dame / In pace in idipsum
- Qui velatus facie fuisti
- Qui velatus facie fuisti
- Hora qui ductus tertia
- In flagellis potum fellis
- In amara crucis ara
- Qui jacuisti mortuus
- Christum ducem, qui per crucem
Performers: Cut Circle, conducted by Jesse Rodin
(CD: II. Missa L’ami Baudichon – Motets milanais, Musique en Wallonie MEW 2514, 2026)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704)
- Sonata for violin and basso continuo No. 5 in E minor, 1681
Nicola Matteis (Sr.) (c. 1650–c. 1713)
From Ayres for the Violin, Books 1–4:
4. Aria malinconica
5. Ground (Adagio piu presto)
6. Sarabanda amorosa
Alessandro Striggio (1536–1592) / Johann Schop (?–1667)
- Nasce la pena mia (arr.)
José de Nebra (1702–1768)
- Seguidillas (arr.)
Additional track:
Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739)
- Fandango (arr.)
Performers: Cristina Prats Costa (violin), Lucas Harris (lute, guitar and theorbo), Charlotte Nediger (harpsichord), Michael Unterman (cello), Joseph Phillips (viol)
(CD: Spiritillo Mediterraneo, PentaTone PTC 5187 582, 2026)
With thanks to Muziekweb.
