J.S.Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier

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GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE PICK OF THE MONTH AND BEST OF THE YEAR
PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE

'The first recorded performances by a pianist of Book I that have made me want to hear them many times over. Strongly recommended' (Gramophone)

'Angela Hewitt's version of Book I eclipses all others; hers will become the benchmark recording ... special and uniquely enchanting' (BBC Music Magazine)

'The Canadian pianist may not regard herself as a Bach specialist, but her brilliant and profoundly musical playing of the first 24 preludes and fugues of the "48" goes straight to the top of available piano versions' (The Sunday Times)

'Performances of exceptional grace and beauty' (BBC Music Magazine)

'An inspirational set' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

Fifteen years ago Angela Hewitt recorded a version of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I which dazzled the critical world and record-buying public. It was followed shortly afterwards by Book II which was similarly received. Now, fresh from her Bach World Tour — in which she performed the complete Well-Tempered Clavier from August 2007 until the end of October 2008 in 58 cities in 21 countries on six continents — Angela has made an entirely new recording of this most iconic of keyboard works.

In a revealing and personal programme note, Angela explains her reasons, both artistic and emotional, for this momentous creative decision. She speaks of the ‘new-found freedom’ that she discovered in her later performances, and especially her use of Fazioli pianos, ‘whose luminous, powerful, and also ever so delicate sounds opened new worlds to me and allowed my imagination to take flight’.

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Angela Hewitt, piano

Guide des Instruments Baroques

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CD 1

01 - Pohle - Sonata a 8 (violons, basses de viole, orgue positif)
02 - Schmelzer - Sonata à 7 flauti (flutes a bec soprano, alto, tenor, basse, orgue positif)
03 - Hammerschmidt - Sonata super (cornet, trombones alto, tenor, basse, orgue positif)
04 - Scheidt - Canzon super (dessus de viole, viole de gambe alto, basse de viole...)
05 - Correa de Arauxo - Tiento tercero de sexto tono (orgue, trompette)
06 - Selma Y Salvaverde - V. Fantasia ex D. (dulciane, clavecin)
07 - Ruiz de Ribayaz - Marionas (harpe chromatique)
08 - Frescobaldi - Canzona detta la Bernardinia (cornet, chitarrone, orgue, violoncelle)
09 - Frescobaldi - Partite sopra Follia (clavecin Italien)
10 - Landi - La Morte d'Orfeo (contralto, chitarrone, lirone)
11 - Trabacci - Toccata Seconda (harpe double)
12 - Turini - Sonata prima (2 flutes a bec soprano, clavecin)
13 - Bartolotti - Passacaglie (guitare a cinq choeurs
14 - Frescobaldi - Toccata terza (orgue)
15 - Jenkins - Almain + Two Thumps (viol lyra-way)
16 - Krausen - Praeludium, Allemanda, Bourée (viole baryton)
17 - Greeting - Nightingale (flageolet)
18 - Farnaby - Fantasia (clavecin)


CD 2

01 - Philidor - Marche a quatre timbales (timbales)
02 - Dampierre - 12e Fanfare - 19e fanfare (Gavotte) (trompes de chasse)
03 - Raison - Extraits du Livre d'orgue (orgue)
04 - Marais - Tombeau pour Monsieur de Ste Colombe (2 basses de viole, theorbe)
05 - La belle homicide - courante (Gaultier) - doube (Mouton) (luth)
06 - Visee - Les Sylvains de Mr. Couperin (theorbe)
07 - Couperin - 13e Concert à 2 instruments à l'unisson-Chaconne légère (2 bassons)
08 - Chedeville - La virtuose (Mouvement de Chaconne) (musette, basson, clavecin)
09 - Löwen - Capriccio primo (trompettes, basson, orgue positif)
10 - Weckman - Der Tod ... (voix, violons, dessus de viole, basse de viole, orgue regale)
11 - Bruhns - O werter heil'ger Geist (Choeur final) (voix, trompettes, cordes, BC)
12 - Bruhns - Praeludium e-moll (orgue)
13 - Walther - Sonata IV (violon, clavecin italien, basse de viole)
14 - Pastorella (Keller) - Der schene Neue Aufzug (Kosteleztki) (trompettes marines, timbales)
15 - Bach, J.S. - Kantate BWV 1 (soprano, oboe da caccia, orgue positif, basse de viole)
16 - Bach, J.S. - Sinfonia (Kantate BWV 76) (oboe d'amore, basse de viole, orgue positif)
17 - Pachelbel - Kanon (flutes a bec alto, basse de viole, orgue positif)
18 - Handel - Sonata in B minor Op 1,9 (flute de voix, orgue positif, basse de viole)
19 - Bach, J.S. - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (orgue)


CD 3

01 - Vivaldi - Concerto con viola d'amore, 2 corni da caccia e 2 hautbois
02 - Vivaldi - Concerto del Sigr. Vivaldi accomodato a clavicembalo obbligato et Flautino
03 - Fontanelli - Suonata con grave e suo Minuetto (mandoline, archiluth)
04 - Geminiani - Sonata IV (si bémol majeur) - (2 violoncelles, clavecin)
05 - Handel - Sonata II (mi mineur) (flute traversiere, basse de viole, clavecin, luth)
06 - Graun - Concerto per flauto Terzetto (flauto terzetto)
07 - Teleman - Sonata a-moll (hautbois, basse de viole, clavecin)
08 - Bach C.P.E. - Trio ... (flutes a bec alto, basse, pianoforte, violoncelle)
09 - Graupner - Suite a 3 chalumeaux (chalumeaux soprano, alto, basse)
10 - Handel - Ouverture (2 clarinettes, cor)
11 - Chedeville - Suite de Noëls (vielle a roue, pardessus de viole)
12 - Mozart - Menuet (clavicorde)
13 - Bach W.F. - Sonata VII C-dur (clavecin, nasal)
14 - Tuma - Inno per il Festo di Sta Teresia (contre-tenor, trombone)
15 - Gretry - La caravane du Caire (extraits) (piccolo, flute traversiere, hautbois)

G.F.Handel - Athalia & Alcina (Sutherland)

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Joan Sutherland (Athalia) Emma Kirkby (Josabeth)
Aled Jones (Joas) James Bowman (Joad)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Mathan) David Thomas (Abner)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Choir of New College, Oxford
Christopher Hogwood

This must be one of the greatest of all Handel oratorio sets. A glorious performance with really excellent singers - Kirkby and Sutherland both exceptional and wonderfully contrasted, James Bowman and Rolfe-Johnson both first rate - and a really beautiful piece of music. Hogwood is truly on form and the set is very nicely paced. Athalia is credited as the first truly great English oratorio and this set surely does it full justice.

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Joan Sutherland (Alcina) Jeannette van Dijck (Morgana)
Norma Procter (Bradamante) Fritz Wunderlich (Ruggiero)
Nicola Monti (Oronte) Thomas Hemsley (Melisso)
Kolner Rundfunkchor, Bernhard Zimmermann
Cappella Coloniensis, Ferdinand Leitner

This recording is the first official release in any format of this once-in-a-lifetime concert performance featuring Dame Joan Sutherland and Fritz Wunderlich. In 1959 performances of Handel were just beginning to embrace the original instrument movement making this recording an invaluable historic record of performance practice. In addition to musicological interest, the CDs present Joan Sutherland at the beginning of her illustrious career in the full bloom of youth. She was flown in as a last minute replacement for the scheduled soprano and proceeded to give a virtuoso performance of the demanding title role.

G.F.Handel - Vespro per la Madonna del Carmelo

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CD 1
1-8 Dixit Dominus (Salmo 109)
per 2 Soprani, Alto, Coro e Orchestra, HWV 232
9-16 Laudate pueri Dominum (Salmo 112)
per Soprano, Coro e Orchestra, HWV 237
17 Te decus virgineum (Antifona)
per Alto e Orchestra, HWV 243

CD 2
1-6 Nisi Dominus (Salmo 126)
per Alto, Tenore, Doppio Coro e Orchestra, HWV 238
7 Haec est Regina virginum (Antifona)
per Soprano e Orchestra, HWV 235
8-13 Saeviat tellus inter rigores (Mottetto per la Madonna Santissima del Carmine)
per Soprano e Orchestra, HWV 240
14-17 Salve Regina (Antifona)
per Soprano, Organo concertante e Orchestra, HWV 241

Romina Basso, contralto
Maria Espada, soprano
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano
Paola Cigna, soprano

Collegium Apollineum
dir. Marco Feruglio

G.F.Handel - Esther (1718 version)

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Among Handel's rarely performed but worthy and wonderful oratorios is Esther, often dismissed for its problematic libretto and its substantial borrowings from other works. Forget all of that and just listen to this thoroughly engaging and tuneful work that features some of Handel's finest arias and most sublime choruses. Harry Christophers and his performers keep the energy high while the sound team provides uncommon immediacy and presence. --David Vernier

contents:


Disc: 1
1 - Overture. Andante - Larghetto - Allegro
2 - Scene 1. Recitative. Tis greater far to spare
3 - Scene 1. Aria. Pluck root and branch from out the land
4 - Scene 1. Chorus. Shall we the God of Israel fear?
5 - Scene 2. Aria. Tune your harps to cheerful strains
6 - Scene 2. Chorus. Shall we of servitude complain
7 - Scene 2. Aria. Praise the Lord with cheerful noise
8 - Scene 2. Aria. Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee
9 - Scene 2. Chorus. Shall we of servitude complain
10 - Scene 3. Recitative. How have our sins provoked the Lord!
11 - Scene 3. Chorus. Ye sons of Israel mourn
12 - Scene 3. Aria. O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide
13 - Scene 3. Chorus. Ye sons of Israel mourn
14. Oboe Sonata in G minor, HWV 404: Andante
15. Oboe Sonata in G minor, HWV 404: Allegro
16. Oboe Sonata in G minor, HWV 404: Adagio
17. Oboe Sonata in G minor, HWV 404: Allegro

Disc: 2
1 - Scene 4. Recitative. Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?
2 - Scene 4. Aria. Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger
3 - Scene 4. Aria. Tears assist me, pity moving
4 - Scene 4. Chorus. Save us, O Lord
5 - Scene 5. Recitative. Who dares intrude into our presence
6 - Scene 5. Duet. Who calls my parting soul from death?
7 - Scene 5. Aria. O beauteous Queen, unclose those eyes!
8 - Scene 5. Aria. How can I stay when love invites!
9 - Scene 5. Chorus. Virtue, truth and innocence
10 - Scene 5. Arioso. Jehovah, crown'd with glory bright
11 - Scene 5. Chorus. He comes, he comes to end our woes
12 - Scene 6. Recitative. Now, O Queen, thy suit declare
13 - Scene 6. Arioso. Turn not, O Queen, thy face away
14 - Scene 6. Aria. Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee!
15 - Scene 6. Recitative. Guards, seize the traitor, bear him hence!
16 - Scene 6. Aria. How art thou fall'n from thy height!
17 - Scene 6. Chorus. The Lord our enemy has slain

Lynda Russell, Nancy Argenta, soprano
Michael Chance, alto
Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Matthew Vine, Simon Berridge, tenor
Michael George, Robert Evans, Simon Birchall, bass
Anthony Robson (oboe)

Choir and Orchestra of The Sixteen
dir. Harry Christophers

Barry Lyndon (OST)

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1. Sarabande Main Title (Handel)
2. Women Of Ireland (Sean O Riada)
3. Piper's Maggot Jig (Traditionnel)
4. The Sea-Maiden (Traditionnel)
5. Tin Whistles (Sean O Riada)
6. British Grenadiers (Traditionnel)
7. Hohenfriedberger March (Frederick The Great)
8. Lilliburlero (Traditionnel)
9. Women Of Ireland (Sean O Riada)
10. March From Idomeneo (Mozart)
11. Sarabande-Duel (Handel)
12. Lilliburlero (Traditionnel)
13. Danse Allemande N 1 En Do Majeur (Schubert)
14. Sarabande-Duel (Handel)
15. Adaptation De La Cavatine Du 'Il Barbiere Di Siviglia' (Paisiello)
16. Concerto Pour Violoncelle En Mi Mineur - 3e Mouvement (Vivaldi)
17. Concerto Pour 2 Harpes En Ut Mineur - Adagio (Bach)
18. Adaptation Du Trio De Piano En Mi Bemol Op 100 - 2e Mouvement (Schubert)
19. Sarabande (Generique De Fin) - (Handel)

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Fifes And Drums et al.

G.F.Handel - Deidamia

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Despite being Handel's last Italian opera composed for London before he turned his full attention to English oratorios, Deidamia shows that Handel was still at the peak of his powers. Alan Curtis's recording reveals the subtlety in Handel's musical characterisations of Ulisse (brilliantly sung by Anna Bonitatibus) and Deidamia (a stunning and emotional performance by Simone Kermes). Il Complesso Barocco demonstrate that the score has many beauties that were almost entirely unfamiliar to even the most dedicated Handel lovers.

cast:

Deidamia: Simone Kermes (Soprano)
Ulisse: Anna Bonitatibus (Mezzo Soprano)
Achille: Anna Maria Panzarella (Soprano)
Nerea: Dominique Labelle (Soprano)
Fenice: Furio Zanasi (Baritone)
Licomede: Antonio Abete (Bass)

Il Complesso Barocco
dir. Alan Curtis

Haydn - Symphonies (Goodman)

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Haydn - Symphonies 1-5

Symphony No 1 in D major
Symphony No 2 in C major
Symphony No 3 in G major
Symphony No 4 in D major
Symphony No 5 in A major

Haydn - Symphonies 6-8

Symphony No 6 in D major 'Le Matin'
Symphony No 7 in C major 'Le Midi'
Symphony No 8 in G major 'Le Soir'

Haydn - Symphonies 9-12

Symphony No 9 in C major
Symphony No 10 in D major
Symphony No 11 in E flat major
Symphony No 12 in E major

Haydn - Symphonies 13-16

Symphony No 13 in D major
Symphony No 14 in A major
Symphony No 15 in D major
Symphony No 16 in B flat major

Haydn - Symphonies 17-21

Symphony No 17 in F major
Symphony No 18 in G major
Symphony No 19 in D major
Symphony No 20 in C major
Symphony No 21 in A major

Haydn - Symphonies 22-25

Symphony No 22 in E flat major 'The Philosopher'
Symphony No 23 in G major
Symphony No 24 in D major
Symphony No 25 in C major

Haydn - Symphonies 42-44

Symphony No 42 in D major
Symphony No 43 in E flat major 'Mercury'
Symphony No 44 in E minor 'Trauersinfonie'

Haydn - Symphonies 45-47

Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell'
Symphony No 46 in B major
Symphony No 47 in G major

Haydn - Symphonies 48-50

Symphony No 48 in C major 'Maria Theresia'
Symphony No 49 in F minor 'La Passione'
Symphony No 50 in C major

Haydn - Symphonies 70-72

Symphony No 70 in D major
Symphony No 71 in B flat major
Symphony No 72 in D major

Haydn - Symphonies 73-75

Symphony No 73 in D major 'La Chasse'
Symphony No 74 in E flat major
Symphony No 75 in D major

Haydn - Symphonies 76-78

Symphony No 76 in E flat major
Symphony No 77 in B flat major
Symphony No 78 in C minor

Haydn - Symphonies 82-84

Symphony No 82 in C major 'The Bear'
Symphony No 83 in G minor 'The Hen'
Symphony No 84 in E flat major

Haydn - Symphonies 85-87

Symphony No 85 in B flat major 'La Reine'
Symphony No 86 in D major
Symphony No 87 in A major

Haydn - Symphonies 90-92

Symphony No 90 in C major
Symphony No 91 in E flat major
Symphony No 92 in G major 'Oxford'

Haydn - Symphonies 93-95

Symphony No 93 in D major
Symphony No 94 in G major 'Surprise'
Symphony No 95 in C minor

Haydn - Symphonies 101-102

Symphony No 101 in D major 'The Clock'
Symphony No 102 in B flat major
Overture to an English opera 'Windsor Castle'

Haydn - Symphonies 94, 100, 104 (Nimbus Records)

Symphony No 94 in G major 'Surprise'
Symphony No 100 in G major 'Military'
Symphony No 104 in D major 'London'


The Hanover Band
dir. Roy Goodman

G.F.Handel - Arminio

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Arminio was first performed in London in January 1737 when Handel’s rivalry with the competing ‘Opera of the Nobility’ was at its height. Three months later, exhausted, the composer suffered a breakdown in health and later left for Aachen in search of a cure. Further operas followed after his return to London but the great triumphs of earlier seasons were not to be repeated. The text of Arminio, by one of Handel’s favourite librettists, Antonio Salvi, is rather a good one; and its strong dramatic sense and above-average literary merit is matched, as usual, by some fine musical characterisation. The story concerns the German leader Hermann (Arminius) whose fight for freedom against Roman occupiers, early in the first century AD is ultimately successful. Alan Curtis and his mainly Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco have already provided us with the only recorded versions of Handel’s Admeto and Rodrigo. This new venture is comparably stylish, briskly moving and mainly well sung. The prevailing seriousness of the piece is established at once by its overture and by the duet of Arminius and his wife Tusnelda. But there is plenty of expressive variety and a wealth of fine arias – ‘Quella fiamma’ (Act II), with its brilliant oboe obbligato, is among the most arresting of them – the changing colours of whose music is a constant delight. Curtis directs all with rhythmic vitality.

-- Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine

cast:

Arminio, Vivica Genaux - mezzo-soprano
Tusnelda, Geraldine McGreevy - soprano
Sigismondo, Dominique Labelle - soprano
Ramise, Manuela Custer - mezzo-soprano
Varo, Luigi Petroni - tenore
Tullio, Syste Buwalda - countertenor
Segeste, Riccardo Ristori - basso

Il Complesso Barocco
dir. Alan Curtis

G.F.Handel - Acis and Galatea

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“A steady and lovely account, with Ainsley on top form.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2009

“An unfailingly delightful work, beautifully performed and recorded” Gramophone Magazine

Acis & Galatea

Claron McFadden, soprano (Galatea)
John Mark Ainsley, tenor (Acis)
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor (Damon)
Michael George, bass (Polyphemus)

Look Down, Harmonious Saint, HWV 124 (*)
Robert Harre-Jones (alto)

The King's Consort
dir. Robert King

(*)The origins of the cantata Look down, harmonious saint are slightly uncertain, for it is thought that the work was originally intended to be part of Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast, whose St Cecilia’s Day Ode in praise of music by Dryden was augmented by Newburgh Hamilton’s The Power of Music. Alexander’s Feast was first performed at Covent Garden in February 1736, but Look down, harmonious saint was not included. Instead it appeared in the cantata Cecilia, volgi un sguardo which was performed at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, in the same month. Whatever Handel’s original intentions and reasons, on its own Look down, harmonious saint happily forms a small cantata, with a da capo aria preceded by an accompanied recitative. In particular, the central section, ‘It charms the soul’, is given a ravishing setting, full of suspensions and rich harmonies, before the virtuoso opening Allegro returns.

G.F.Handel - La Resurrezione

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cast:

Angelo: Lisa Saffer, soprano
Maddalena: Judith Nelson, soprano
Cleofe: Patricia Spence, mezzo-soprano
San Giovanni: Jeffrey Thomas, tenore
Lucifero: Michael George, basso-baritono

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
dir. Nicholas McGegan

G.F.Handel - Alexander Balus

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'This is a landmark in recording history ... Self-recommending, I think' (The Sunday Times)

'All Handelians will want this set' (Gramophone)

'An outstanding recording … an enthralling experience' (Choir & Organ)

'A winner … one of those experiences where you know almost from the first chord that an enjoyable and rewarding evening lies ahead of you. The cast is on top form' (Early Music)

'A very well sung and very welcome appearance of one of Handel's most rarely performed works … For her [Lynne Dawson] interpretation alone the recording is worth buying' (Classic CD)

'We may be grateful that yet another glory has been restored by Robert King and his accomplished forces' (The Times)

'King and his musicians approach the piece with vitality and affection and, in so doing, carried me along from start to finish' (BBC Music Magazine)

cast:

Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano (Alexander Balus)
Michael George, bass (Ptolomee)
Charles Daniels, tenor (Jonathan)
Lynne Dawson, soprano (Cleopatra)
Claron McFadden, soprano (Aspasia)

Choir of New College Oxford
Choir of The King's Consort
The King's Consort
dir. Robert King

J.S. Bach - Oboenwerke - 3 CD

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CD 1

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Konzert A-dur fur Oboe d'amore, Streicher und Basso Continuo (BWV 1055)
Konzert d-moll fur Violin, Oboe, Streicher und Basso Continuo (BWV 1060)
Konzert F-dur fur Oboe, Streicher und Basso Continuo (BWV 1053)
Concerto in F major for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo
Konzert D-dur fur Oboe, Flote und Violin
(transkription des Konzertes D-dur fur drei Violinen
rekonstruktion des Konzertes C-dur fur drei Cembali BWV 1064 von Alexei Utkin, 2003)
Concerto in D major for Oboe, Flute and Violin
(transcription of the Concerto D-majeur for Three Violins
reconstruction of the Concerto C-dur for Three Harpsichords BWV 1064 by Alexei Utkin, 2003)

Total time [62:18]

Alexei Utkin (oboe, oboe d'amore)
Maria Chepurina (flute)
Pyotr Nikiforov (1st violin)


CD 2

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Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major BWV 1066
Sonata in G minor for Oboe and Harpsichord BWV 1030b
Concerto in D minor for Oboe and Violin BWV 1043
(transcription. A. Utkin, 2003)
Italian Concerto in F major for Harpsichord BWV 971

Total time [62:47]

Alexei Utkin (oboe)
Pyotr Nikiforov (1st violin)
Anna Karpenko (harpsichord)


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Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo BWV 1059
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV 1067
(transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067 A. Utkin, 2003)

Total time [59:17]

Alexei Utkin (oboe)

Hermitage Orchestra

George Frideric Handel - The Secret Handel

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"Christopher Hogwood’s incisive mind regularly leads to strong and imaginative concepts and this, the first of a series of clavichord discs dedicated to Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, is a perfect example. The clavichord has a history of domestic usage, the intimate nature of its utterances seeming both exquisite and slightly enigmatic. Its main mechanical feature of stretching strings gives the player the ‘touch’ to grade dynamics, alter pitch through vibrating and other idiomatic colouring. These are delicate nuances with an instrument of such softness, offered as fleeting gestures, usually for the player’s ears alone." - GRAMOPHONE

tracklist:

1. Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.1, No.3 in D Minor, HWV 428
2. Aria (Chaconne) and variations for keyboard in G major, HWV 430/4a
3. Fugue for keyboard in C minor, HWV 610
4. Suite for 2 harpsichords in C minor, HWV 446 (fragment)
5. Minuet for keyboard in A major, HWV 545
6. Minuet for keyboard in A major, HWV 547
7. Minuet for keyboard in A major, HWV 546
8. Air for keyboard in F major, HWV 464
9. Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348: Bourrée and Hornpipe
10. Aria and variations for clavichord in B flat major
11. Air for keyboard in B flat major, HWV 469
12. Concerto for keyboard (2 movements) in G major, HWV 487
13. Air Lentement for keyboard in G minor, HWV 467
14. Concerto for keyboard (2 movements) in G major, HWV 487
15. Allemande for keyboard in B minor, HWV 479
16. Courante for keyboard in B minor, HWV 489
17. Sarabande for clavichord in B minor
18. Gigue for clavichord in B minor
19. Jesu meine Freude, chorale for keyboard in G minor, HWV 480
20. Chaconne for harpsichord in G major, HWV 435

Christopher Hogwood, clavichord

Antonio Vivaldi - Die Konzerte fur Blockflote und Flautino

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Concerto C major for Sopranino Recorder RV 444 (PV 79)
Concerto F major for Treble Recorder RV 442
Concerto A minor for Sopranino Recorder RV 445 (PV 83)
Concerto C minor for Treble Recorder RV 441 (PV 440)
Concerto C major for Sopranino Recorder RV 443 (PV 78)

Michael Schneider
Camerata Koln

Johann Joachim Quantz - 7 Sonatas for Flute

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B minor QV 1-167 (Dresden)
D major QV 1-47 D-dur (Potsdam)
C major QV 1-12 (Potsdam)
C minor QV 1-15 (Dresden)
F major QV 1-86 (Dresden)
E minor QV 1-73 (Dresden)
G major QV 1-105 (Potsdam)


Benedek Csalog - Baroque Flute
Rita Papp - Harpsichord

First recording

Il Giardino Armonico - Viaggio musicale

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Viaggio Musicale - a voyage from Milan to Venice, through North-Italian music and the flourishing culture of the legendary seicento: while Santa Maria della Salute was being built in Venice, while Galilei was presenting his newly invented telescope on the tower of St Mark's, and while Nicola Amati was establishing the famous Italian violin-making trade in Cremona, composers such as Monteverdi, Rossi, Castello and many others were developing stunning new forms of expressive and virtuoso instrumental music.

Claudio Monteverdi - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, opera in 3 acts, SV 325 (Sinfonia)
Tarquinio Merula - Chiacona (from Canzoni overo sonate ..., 1637)
Tarquinio Merula - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Dario Castello - Sonata
Giovanni Battista Spadi - Anchor che co'l partire (after a madrigal by Cipriano de Rore)
Giovanni Battista Spadi - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Dario Castello - Sonata Concertate No. 10 "in stil moderno" for 2 sopranos, bass & basso continuo
Giovanni Battista Riccio - Sonata a 4
Giovanni Battista Riccio - Work(s) (Improvisation)
Biagio Marini - Sonata sopra "La Monica", for chamber instruments & continuo
Marco Uccellini - Aria quinta sopra la Bergamasca (Book 3)
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia a 3
Giovanni Battista Fontana - Sonata No.15 for 2 cornettos, dulcian, organ & continuo
Alessandro Piccinini - Work(s) ([Unspecified] Toccata)
Marco Uccellini - Sonata XVIII
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia a 3
Francesco Rognoni - Variations on Palestrina's Vestiva i colli, for soprano viola da gamba & continuo
Salomone Rossi - Gagliarda detta Zambalina a 4
Salomone Rossi - Sinfonia grave a 5
Tarquinio Merula - La Cattarina
Marco Uccellini - Aria Sopra "La scatola degli aghi" (from Op. 4)
Giovanni Paolo Cima - Work(s) ([Unspecified] Sonata)
Tarquinio Merula - Ruggiero
Salomone Rossi - Gagliarda detta Norsina a 5

Adriano Banchieri - Barca di Venezia per Padova

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Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), the «enfant terrible» of Italian polyphonic music, produced a real masterpiece with his «Barca di Venetia per Padova» («Venetian Boat bound for Padua»). This is true both front the point of view of the wit and liveliness of the text and subject, and with regard to the musical devices and technique employed. The composer imagines that persons from diferent parts of Italy, plus a German, are aboard this boat. Each of them speaks in his own dialect, the diferences in character also being fairly well marked. The Chaucer of « The Canterbury Tales » naturally comes to mind. Even if the poetical standard of the present work is not on the same level, the wealth and variety of the musical ideas provide ample compensation and show the composer's endless powers of imagination. Banchieri could not even resist a touch of humour in the title, in the case of a second edition (the one used for the present edition, as no complete copy of the first edition exists as far as we know). He states that his «Boat» has been «newly plugged and coated with pitch». The title page also makes it clear that the Spinet (or Theorbo) part was in fact added in this second edition.

It is around the year 1600 and a boat is travelling between and Venice and Padova. On board are a bookseller from Florence, a German, a conductor, singers from all over Italy, courtiers, two Jews, fishermen, businessmen and a soldier. A real mix of cultures, religions, languages and dialects. They have only one thing in common: they all need to get to Padova.
All those people on a small boat. Eating, drinking, sleeping and passing the time all together. Hopefully there will be no arguments. But arguments do begin. They don’t understand eachother, each one thinks the others are strange; they all have different habits, preferences and opinions. The boat doesn’t seem to be going anywhere fast!
Someone tells a story and someone else plays some music to break the ice. Hey %u2013 I know that tune! Can I sing along? Oh no, now two people are arguing about each other’s taste in music. One of them makes fun of the other’s dialect, who then ridicules the first one’s eating habits. If only they don’t start a fight! Things luckily don’t go so far, no, on the contrary, everyone is now laughing, drinking and starting to dance. When they arrive, a miracle seems to have happened: everyone has made friends with everyone else. They are all different, and yet all one!

George Friederic Handel - Concerti Grossi op.3

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1. Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3/1, HWV 312
2. Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3/2, HWV 313
3. Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.3/3, HWV 314
4. Concerto Grosso in F major, Op.3/4a, HWV 315
5. Concerto Grosso in F, Op.3/4b (spurious)
6. Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op.3/5, HWV 316
7. Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.3/6, HWV 317
8. Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.3/6, HWV 317 2nd movement

Brandenburg Consort
dir. Roy Goodman

Cantate Napoletane del 700

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Niccolò Grillo - Sosutose 'no juorno, cantata for voice & strings
Giuseppe de Majo - Lo finto laccheo, opera : Aria. "Quanno lo pesce è bivo"
Nicola Ugolino - Concerto for lute, violin & strings in B flat major
Leonardo Leo - Siciliana for voice, 2 violins & continuo
Leonardo Leo - Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major
Giuseppe de Majo - Lo finto laccheo, opera : Aria. "Se crede sta' secura"
Niccolò Grillo - Visciole de' sto core, cantata for voice & strings
Nicolo Fiorenza - Sinfonia for violin & continuo
Giuseppe de Majo - Lo finto laccheo, opera : Aria. "Lo villano che 'na chianca"
Giuseppe de Majo - Lo finto laccheo, opera : Aria. "Gia' che 'sto bello sole"

Pino de Vittorio
Cappella de'Turchini
dir. Antonio Florio