Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CDs. New CDs of Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout, Marc & Pierre Hantaï, Emilio Moreno and the Hofkapelle Stuttgart a.o.
1. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
– Sonata II for harpsichord & violin, BWV1015
Performers: Isabelle Faust, violin. Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
(CD: Sonatas for violin & harpsichord, brand Harmonia Mundi, no. HMM 902256.57, 2017)
2. Johann Sebastian Bach
– Sonata for traverso & harpsichord, BWV1032
Performers: Marc Hantaï, traverso. Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
(CD: Sonates pour flûte et clavecin, brand Mirare, no. MIR370, 2017)
3. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
– ‘Sancta Mater, istud agas’ from the Stabat Mater Hob. XXa:1
Performers: Sarah Wegener, soprano. Colin Blazer, tenor. Hofkapelle Stuttgart conducted by Frieder Bernius
(CD: Stabat Mater, brand Carus, no. 83.281, 2017)
4. Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
– Sonata in G major ‘La Tirana’
Performers: Emilio Moreno, violin. Aarón Zapico, harpsichord
(CD: Apocryphal Sonatas, brand Glossa, no. 920315, 2018)
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
– ‘Ihr unsre neuen Leiter’, KV483
Performers: John Heuzenroeder, tenor. Willi Kronenberg, organ. Kölner Akademie Choir conducted by Michael Alexander Willens
(CD: Masonic Works, brand BIS, no. 2294, 2017)
