Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s. In this episode Kees introduces six new CDs: the new albums of Solomon’s Knot, Fred Jacobs, Fretwork, La Madrileña, Scherzi Musicali and the Imaginarium Ensemble.
1. Johann Schelle (1648-1701)
– ‘Machet die Tore weit’
Performed by: Solomon’s Knot
(CD: ‘Magnificat, Christmas in Leipzig’, Sony 19075992622, 2019)
2. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (ca. 1580-1651)
– ‘Canzone prima’
– ‘Canario’
Performed by: Fred Jacobs, theorbe
(CD: ‘Virtù e Nobiltà’, Metronome CD 1093, 2019)
3. Alfonso Ferrabosco II (1575-1628)
– ‘In Nomine through all the parts’
Performed by: Fretwork
(CD: ‘In Nomine II’, Signum Classics SIGCD576, 2019)
4. José de Nebra (1702-1768)
– From the Requiem: ‘Dies irae’ en ‘Lacrimosa’
Performed by: Coro Victoria & La Madrileña led by José Antonio Montaño
(CD: ‘Requiem (1758)’, Pan Classics PC 10412, 2019)
5. Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1595-1665)
– Motet: ‘Advolate fidelis populi’
Performed by: Scherzi Musicali led by Nicolas Achten
(CD: ‘Motetti a due e tre voci Op. 3’, Ricercar RIC 406, 2019)
6. Taquinio Merula (1637-1695)
– ‘La Lusignuola’
7. Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
– Violin concerto in f minor. Op. 8, no 4 “L’inverno” (Winter)
Peerformed by: Imaginarium Ensemble led by Enrico Onofri, violin
(CD: ‘Vivaldi Seasons’, Passacaille PAS 1062, 2019)
