Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s
The new albums Kees Koudstaal has chosen for this episode are ‘Vous avez dit brunettes?’, ‘Stagioni d’amore’, ‘Concertos pour Violon’, ‘Simply Mozart’ and ‘Irish Songs’.
Anonymous composers
1. Colin disoir à sa Bergere
2. Sur cette charmante rive
3. Je ne veux plus aimer rien
4. Où estes vous allé, mes belles
5. J’avais cru qu’en vous
6. Non non je n’iray
7. Vous qui sçavez si bie
8. Le beau berger Tirais
9. Nicolas va voir Jeanne
10. Contredanse
Performers: Les Kapsber’girls
(cd: ‘Vous avez dit brunettes?’, Alpha 761, 2021)
Biagio Marini (1594-1663)
11. ‘Balletto Secondo’
12. ‘Le lagrime d’Erminia: Senza Tancredi viva’
Performers: BernVocal conducted by Fritz Krämer
(cd: ‘Stagioni d’amore’, Passacaille PAS 1110, 2021)
Jean-Baptiste Quentin (ca. 1690-ca. 1742)
13. Violin Concerto in A major Opus 12, no. 1
Performers: Ensemble Diderot conducted by Johannes Pramsohler, violin
(cd: ‘Concertos pour Violon’, Audax ADX 13782, 2021)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
14. Part I ‘Allegro’ from Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major KV 216
Performers: Le concert de la loge conducted by Julien Chauvin, violin
(cd: ‘Simply Mozart’, Alpha 776, 2021)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
15. ‘The pulse of an Irishman’ WoO 174, no. 4
16. ‘Thy ship must sail’ WoO 153, no. 20
Performers: Maria Keohane, soprano. Ricercar Consort conducted by Philippe Pierlot
(cd: ‘Irish Songs’, Mirare MIR 540, 2021)