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cReview of
Gluck, Armide, performed by Opera Lafayette & the New
York Baroque Dance Company, 3 February 2010.
New Releases
| Hasse. Sanctus Petrus et Sancta
Maria Magdalena. Oehms Classics OC 950 (1 CD, August
2010). Michael Hofstetter, Chor & Orchester der
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. S. Maria Magdalena:
Kirsten Blaise, soprano; Maria Iacobi: Hiedrun Kordes,
soprano; Maria Salome: Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; S.
Petrus: Terry Wey, countertenor; Joseph d'Arimatea:
Jacek Laszczkowski, sopranist.
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| Hasse. Te Deum / Sacred Works.
cpo (1 CD, August 2010). Matthias Jung, Batzdorfer
Hofkapelle, Sächsisches Vocalensemble. Barbara Christina
Steude, soprano; Susanne Langner, contralto; Georg
Poplutz, tenor; Matthias Lutze, bass.
DE |
CA |
| C.P.E. Bach. Hamburger
Quartalsmusiken. cpo (2 CDs, August 2010).
Ludger Rémy, Les Amis de Philippe, Himlische Cantorey.
Cantatas H. 805 "Nun danket alle Gott", H. 817 "Herr,
nun lehr uns beten", H. 812 "Siehe, ich begehre deiner
Befehle", & H. 811 "Ehre sei Gott".
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CA |
| Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806).
Il Sogno / La Dora Festeggiante (Complete Stage
Cantatas). RCOC. (2 CDs, September 2010).
Details. Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de
Cámara (RCOC). Nice/Apollo: Sunhae Im, soprano;
Egle/Minerva: Raffaella Milanesi, soprano; Fileno/Giove:
Magnus Staveland, baritone.
UK |
FR |
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| Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1817).
Le Déserteur. Naxos 8.66026364 (2 CDs, September
2010).
Performance review.
Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette. Alexis: William Sharp,
baritone; Louise: Dominique Labelle, soprano; Jeannette
and The Aunt Marguerite: Ann Monoyios, soprano; Bertrand
and First Guard: Tony Boutté, tenor; Monatuciel and
Second Guard: David Newman, baritone; Courchemin: Darren
Perry, baritone; Jean-Louis (le père) and Third Guard:
Eugene Galvin, bass-baritone.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Pergolesi box set: 1 - Stabat Mater / Violin
Concerto / Salve Regina in C minor. 2 - Missa S. Emidio / Salve Regina in
F minor / Manca la guida al piè / Laudate pueri Dominum. 3 - Dixit Dominus
/ Salve Regina in A
minor / Confitebor tibi, Domine / Chi non ode e chi non vede.
DG-Archiv 477 8464 7 (3 CDs, October 2010). Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Coro della
Radiotelevisione Svizzera. Reissue of the three CDs released in
2009-2010.
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FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Monteverdi. Vespro della Beata
Vergine / Missa in Illo Tempore (1610). Dynamic CDS
656/1-3 (3 CDs, July 2010).
Details. Roberto Gini, Ensemble Concerto, Concerto
Palatino; Ensemble la Pifarescha; Gruppo vocale Laurence
Feininger.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Buxtehude. Opera Omnia 12: Chamber
Music 1. Challenge Classics (1 CD, September 2010).
Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Handel. Eight Great Harpsichord
Suites HWV 426-433 (1720). SOMM 095-2 (2 CDs, March
2010).
Details. Laurence Cummings, harpsichord.
US |
UK |
| Marin Marais. Pièces de Viole, Book 2, Part 2 - Voix humaines. Ligia Digital (2 CDs, September 2010). Jean-Louis Charbonnier, bass viol; Paul Rousseau, bass viol; Mauricio Burgalia, theorbo; Pierre Trocellier, harpsichord. This is the final installment in the complete music for viol by Marin Marais.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Handel. Concerti Grossi Op. 6.
Linn Records CKD 362 (3 CDs, June 2010).
Details. Pavlo Beznosiuk, The Avison Ensemble.
UK |
FR |
| Richard Jones (d.1744). Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord (London, 1732). Glossa (2 CDs, September 2010). Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord.
UK |
FR |
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| André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Céphale et
Procris ou l'Amour conjugal (Ballet-héroique 1773).
Ricercar (2 CDs, August 2010).
Video broadcast on Arte TV. Guy Van Waas, Les Agrémens,
Choeur de Chambre de Namur. L'Aurore: Bénédicte Tauran, soprano;
Procris: Katia Vellétaz, soprano; Céphale: Pierre-Yves Pruvot,
baritone; Palès & La Jalousie: Isabelle Cals, mezzo-soprano;
Flore: Aurélie Franck, soprano; L'Amour: Caroline Weynants,
soprano.
UK | FR | DE |
| Gluck. Blessed Spirit - The Operas of Gluck. Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0037 (1 CD, May 2010). Details. Ian Page, Classical Opera Company. Sophie Bevan, soprano; Ailish Tynan, soprano; Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano. Arias from Semiramide riconosciuta, Ezio, La clemenza di Tito, Antigono, Telemaco, Il re pastore, L'ivrogne corrigé, Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, Paride ed Elena, Iphigénie en Aulide &
Armide. US | UK | FR | DE | CA | JP |
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Antonio
Caldara. Il più bel nome (Barcelona, 1708). Glossa GCD
920310 (2
CDs, July 2010).
Details (pdf). Emilio Moreno, El Concierto Español. Venere:
María Espada, soprano; Paride: Robin Blaze, countertenor;
Giunone: Raquel Andueza, soprano; Ercole: Marianne Beate
Kielland, mezzo-soprano; Il Fato: Agustín Prunell-Friend,
tenor.
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FR |
DE |
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G.B.
Bononcini (1670-1747). Barbara ninfa ingrata (Cantata). Zig-Zag Territoires (1 CD,
August 2010). Cyril Auvity, tenor. L'Yriade. May also include
the cantata "Alle sue pene intorno" and Sinfonia nona, op. 4. UK | FR | DE |
| Handel. Berenice, regina d'Egitto. (HWV
38, London 1737). Virgin Classics 50999 6285362 0 (3 CDs, June 2010). Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco. Berenice: Klara Ek,
soprano; Alessandro: Ingela Bohlin, soprano; Selene: Romina
Basso, mezzo-soprano; Arsace: Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezzo-soprano;
Demetrio: Franco Fagioli, countertenor; Fabio: Zorzi Giustiniani,
tenor; Arsitobolo: Vito Priante, bass.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP |
Mozart. Die Zauberflöte. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902068/70 (3 CDs, August 2010).
René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor.
Königin der Nacht: Anna Kristina Kaappola, soprano; Pamina:
Marlis Petersen, soprano; Tamino: Daniel Behle, tenor; Papageno:
Daniel Schmutzhard, baritone; Monostatos: Kurt Azesberger,
tenor; Papagena: Sunhae Im, soprano; Sarastro: Marcos Fink,
bass.
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FR |
DE
Special edition for FNAC & HM Boutique (includes DVD).
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Pergolesi. Stabat Mater, Salve Regina. Harmonia Mundi HMC
902072 (1 CD,
August 2010). Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
Anna Prohaska, soprano; Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano.
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FR |
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Handel. Ombra cara - Opera Arias. Harmonia Mundi HMC
902077 (1 CD,
August 2010). Bejun Mehta, countertenor. René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester.
UK |
FR |
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| Telemann. The Complete Tafelmusik. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902042/45 (4 CDs, October 2010). Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester.
UK |
FR |
DE |
 J.S.
Bach. Cantatas for the complete liturgical year, volume XI (of
XX): "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen".
Accent ACC 25311 (1 CD, June
2010). Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande. Siri Thornhill,
soprano; Petra Noskaiová, contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan
van der Crabben, bass. BWV 12, 67, 85.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
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Rosenmüller. Beatus Vir. Zig-Zag Territoires (1 CD,
August 2010). Details. Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti.
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FR |
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Antoine Selosse (1621-1687). La Chasse Royale - keyboard
manuscript. Deux-Elles DXL 1136 (2 CDs, June 2010).
Details.
Terrence Charlston, organ, harpsichord & clavichord.
UK |
| J.S. Bach. Mass in B Minor BWV 232.
Linn Records CKD 354 (2 CDs, May 2010).
Details. John Butt, Dunedin Consort. Susan Hamilton, soprano
1; Cecilia Osmond, soprano 2; Margot Oitzinger, contralto;
Thomas Hobbs, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Music for the Peace of Utrecht -
Handel, Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate. (HWV
278 & 279, London 1713); Croft (1678-1727), Ode for the
Peace of Utrecht. Channel Classics CCS SA 29610 (1 CD, June 2010).
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society. Nicki Kennedy,
soprano; William Towers, countertenor; Wolfram Lattke, tenor;
Julian Podger, tenor; Peter Harvey, bass.
UK |
FR |
DE |
JP |
| Handel. Italian Cantatas vol. 7 (of 7) - Apollo & Dafne. Glossa (1 CD, June 2010). Fabio Bonizzoni, La Risonanza.
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Camilla
de Rossi. Santa Beatrice d'Este (Vienna 1707). ORF
CD 3092
(1 CD, May 2010).
Concert review (pdf). Daniela Dolci, Musica Fiorita.
Santa Beatrice d'Este: Graciela Oddone, soprano; Santa Giuliana
& Angelo: Dennis Lakey, countertenor; Consigliero: Makoto
Sakurada, tenor; Ezzellino: Lisandro Abadie, bass.
UK |
FR |
DE |
 Zelenka. Missa Votiva (ZWV 18, 1739).
Carus 83.223 (1 CD, May 2010).
Details. Frieder Bernius,
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Stuttgarter Kammerchor. Joanne Lunn,
soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Johannes Kaleschke, tenor;
Thomas E. Bauer, baritone.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Handel, Veracini, Vivaldi, Hasse. Passionate
Baroque Arias. Brilliant Classics 94071 (1 CD, July
2010). Stefano Veggetti, Ensemble Cordia. Gemma Bertagnolli, soprano.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Durante, Leo, Porpora. A voi ritorno: Cantatas &
Instrumental Works from 18th Century Naples. Fuga Libera FUG
570 (1 CD,
June 2010). Giorgio Sasso, violin & director, Insieme
Strumentale di Roma. Raffaella Milanesi, soprano. Leo: Cantata
"Vado dal Piano al Monte"; Porpora: Cantata: "Il Ritiro".
Concertos by Durante & Leo & a sinfonia by Leo.
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FR |
DE |
| Handel. Athalia. (HWV 52, 1735 version). dhm 88697723172 (2 CDs, June 2010).
Details. Paul Goodwin, Kammerorchester Basel, Vocalconsort
Berlin. Josabeth: Núria Rial, soprano; Athalia: Geraldine
McGreevy, soprano; Joad: Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor; Mathan:
Charles Daniels, tenor; Abner: David Wilson-Johnson, bass.
Substantially revised from the original 1733 version, with 5
Italian arias for Carestini, who took over Joad from an English
countertenor, a new overture, a concluding organ
concerto, and new English arias & chouses.
More
information...
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M.-A. Charpentier, Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. O
Maria! Psaumes et motets des années 1680. Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT 100601 (1 CD, June 2010). Details. Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble
Correspondances. Caroline Bardot, soprano; Juliette Perret,
soprano; Etienne Bazola, baritone.
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FR |
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William Hayes (1708-1777). The Passions (An Ode for Music,
Oxford 1750). Glossa (1 CD, June 2010). Anthony Rooley, La Cetra
Barockorchester Basel, Chor der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Evelyn Tubb,
soprano; Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano; Sumihito Uesugi,
countertenor; David Munderloh, tenor;
Lisandro Abadie, bass. The final aria and
chorus were included in the ABC CD "Emma Kirkby in Australia".
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837). Mathilde von Guise
(French opera, Vienna 1810). Brilliant
Classics 94043 (2 CDs, June 2010).
Details. Didier Talpain, Solamente Naturali, Picardie Regional Choir. Mathilde: Kristine Gailite,
soprano; Baroness: Hjördis Thébault, soprano; Claudina: Eva
Šušková,
soprano;
Beaufort: Philippe Do, tenor; Ondrej
Šaling, tenor; Martin Mikus,
baritone; Duke: Pierre-Yves Pruvot, bass. No libretto is included,
and Brilliant's representation in the packaging that one is
available online is false.
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Handel.
Scipione. (HWV 20, London 1726). FNAC Music 592245 (3 CDs
1994), remastered and reissued on Aparté 005 (May 2010).
Review by Philippe Gelinaud. Christophe Rousset. Les Talens
Lyriques. Scipione: Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor; Berenice:
Sandrine Piau, soprano; Lucejo: Doris Lamprecht, mezzo-soprano;
Ernando: Olivier Lallouette, baritone; Armira: Vanda Tabery,
soprano; Lelio: Guy Fletcher, tenor. Due to the interest in this
long-awaited reissue, I'm temporarily moving it up from the
reissues list below. In addition to remastering, the reissue has
set the English and French translations in readable,
left-aligned type, although the Italian is still in undesirable,
center-aligned type though at least without FNAC's usability
challenged fonts and colors.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Louis Couperin. Suites pour Clavecin -
Pavane. Aparté 006 (2 CDs, May 2010). Christophe
Rousset, harpsichord. Louis Denis harpsichord (1658). Rousset
has selected Couperin's""very finest pieces" and for generally
followed the order of the Parville manuscript.
UK |
FR |
DE |
 Vivaldi. Armida al campo d'Egitto.
(RV 699, Venice 1718). Naïve / Opus 111 OP 30492 (3 CDs,
March 2010).
Video about
making the recording. Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Erminia:
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano; Armida: Sara Mingardo; contralto; Adrasto: Romina Basso, mezzo-soprano; Osmira:
Monica Bacelli, mezzo-soprano; Emireno: Marina Comparato,
mezzo-soprano; Tisaferno: Martín Oro, countertenor; Califfo:
Furio Zanasi, baritone. Alessandrini and Frédéric Delaméa
reconstructed Act II, for which the music was lost, with new
recitatives and choruses by Alessandrini. This is one of the
finest Vivaldi opera recordings. Highly recommended!
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Alessandro Melani (1639-1703). Mottetti.
Naïve Opus 111 OP 30431 (1 CD, August 2010).
Details. Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Concerto Italiano. Alena Dantcheva, Monica Piccinini & Anna
Simboli, sopranos; Gabriella Martellacci, contralto; Andrea
Arrivabene, countertenor; Luca Dordolo & Raffaele Giordani,
tenors; Matteo Bellotto & Sergio Foresti, basses; Craig
Marchitelli & Michael Leopold, theorbos.
UK |
FR |
DE |
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Andromaque
(Tragédie lyrique. Paris 1780).
Glossa GCD 921620 (2 CDs, April 2010.)
Concert review /
Details. Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel.
Andromaque: Karine Deshayes, soprano; Hermione: Maria-Riccarda
Wesseling, mezzo-soprano; Pyrrhus: Sébastien Guèze, tenor;
Oreste: Tassis Christoyannis, baritone. Box set with
French/English/German texts.
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FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
French book with CDs. GES 921620-F
(Details).
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FR |
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| Valentin Rathgeber (1682-1750). Missa St.
Benedicti - 13 Sacred Works.
cpo 777 425-2 (1 CD, April 2010.)
Details. Matthias Beckert, Monteverdi Ensemble
Würzburg. Hellen Rohrbach, soprano; Melanie Lovrencic,
contralto; Christian Werzinger, tenor; Simon Tischler, bass.
Beckert was co-director of the fine recording of Handel's
Giove in Argo.
This is another excellent production. Many of the works sound like Handel anthems, with movements for solists with chorus.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Bolivian
Baroque vol. 3 - Music from the Missions and La Plata. Channel Classics CCS SA 28009 (1 CD,
February 2010).
Details.
Ashley Solomon, Florilegium, Arakaender Bolivia Choir.
Includes organ music from the Bolivian archives performed by
James Johnstone on the restored anonymous Blockwerk organ in the
Mission Church of Santa Ana de Velasco, located about 500 km
west of Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Alessandro Scarlatti. San Filippo Neri
(1705).
Brilliant Classics 94037 (2 CDs, April 2010.)
Details. Estevan Velardi,
Alessandro Stradella Consort. Carità: Rosita Frisani, soprano;
Fede: Marco Lazzara, countertenor; Speranza: Manuela Custer,
mezzo-soprano; San Fillippo: Mario Nuvoli, tenor. UK |
FR |
DE |
| Haydn. Arianna à Naxos, Lieder & Canzonettas. Ambronay (1 CD, April 2010.) Stephanie d'Oustrac, soprano. Aline
Zylberajch, fortepiano. Excellent recording.
UK |
FR |
DE |
 Monteverdi. L'incoronazione di Poppea
(Naples manuscript 1651). Glossa
GCD 920916 (3 CDs,
April 2010).
Details. Claudio Cavina, La Venexiana. Poppea: Emanuella
Galli, soprano; Nerone: Roberta Mameli, soprano; Ottavia: Xenia Meijer, soprano;
Ottone: Josè Maria Lo Monaco, mezzo-soprano; Arnata: Ian Honeyman, tenor;
Seneca: Raffaele Costantini, bass. Cavina's L'Orfeo may be the finest
recording to date of a Monteverdi opera, but Poppea
suffers from a distant recording in an overly reverberant space.
Garrido's recording of the Naples manuscript, while less
authentic, with a large orchestra and added winds instruments,
is better recorded and consequently more satisfying overall. Box
set with French/English/German texts.
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JP - maybe:
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FR |
DE
French book with 3 CDs, GES 920916-F (Details):
UK |
FR |
DE |
 Handel. Giulio Cesare in Egitto. (HWV
17, London 1724). MDG 609 1604-2 (3 CDs, January 2010).
Details. George Petrou, Orchestra of
Patras. Giulio Cesare: Kristina Hammarström,
mezzo-soprano; Cleopatra: Emanuela Galli, soprano;
Sesto: Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezzo-soprano; Cornelia: Irini
Karagianni, mezzo-soprano; Tolomeo: Romina Basso, mezzo-soprano; Achilla:
Tassis Christoyannis, baritone; Curio: Petros Magoulas, bass; Nireno:
Nikos Spanatis, countertenor.
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Handel.
Orlando. (HWV 31, London 1733). K617221/3
(3 CDs, March 2010).
Details. Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la
Chambre du Roy. Orlando: Christophe Dumaux, countertenor;
Angelica: Elena de la Merced, soprano; Dorinda: Rachel Nicholls, soprano; Medoro:
Jean-Michel Fumas, countertenor; Zoroastro: Alain Buet, bass. No libretto included -- here is an Italian/English libretto by the Independent Opera (pdf).
UK |
FR |
DE |
 Handel. Brockes Passion. (HWV 48,
Hamburg 1719). Carus 83.428 (January, 2010). Peter Neumann, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor. Tochter Zion:
Nele Gramß, soprano; Gläubige
Seele: Johanna Winkel, soprano; Evangelist: Markus Brutscher, tenor; Jesus:
Markus Flaig, bass; Petrus: James Oxley, tenor; Maria: Elvira Bill,
mezzo-soprano; Judas: Jan Thomer, countertenor; Michael Dahmen,
bass. This is easily the best recording to date of Handel's
Brockes Passion. The two sopranos are easy to distinguish, yet
both sing with excellent early music technique.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 J.S.
Bach. Cantatas for the complete liturgical year, volume X (of
XX): "Himmelfahrts-Oratorium".
Accent ACC 25310 (1 CD, April
2010). Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande. Siri Thornhill,
soprano; Petra Noskaiová, contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan
van der Crabben, bass. BWV 11, 44, 86, 108.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
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| Handel. Alexander's Feast HWV 75.
ORF 2012631 (2 CDs, April 2010). Heinz Ferlesch, Ensemble Barucco,
Wiener Singakademie. Andrea Lauren Brown, soprano; Markus
Brutscher, tenor; Günter Haumer, bass.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Handel. Judas Maccabaeus. (HWV 63,
London 1747). Ambronay AMY 024 (2 CDs, March 2010).
Details /
Review by Johan Van Veen - "None of them is a
native English speaker, and that shows." Leonardo García
Alarcón, Ensemble Les Agrémens, Choeur de Chambre de Namur. Judas Maccabaeus:
Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Israelite Woman: María Soledad de la
Rosa, soprano;
Israelite Man: Mariana Rewerski, mezzo-soprano; Priest /
Messenger: Fabián Schofrin, countertenor; Simon: Alejandro
Meerapfel, baritone.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Handel. Judas Maccabaeus. (HWV 63,
London 1747). dhm 88697720242 (2 CDs, May 2010).
Details.
Rolf Beck, Elbipolis Barockorchester. Israelite Woman: Núria
Rial, soprano; Judas Maccabeus: Lothar Odinius, tenor; Israelite
Man: Lucia Duchonova, mezzo-soprano; Simon: Sergio Foresti,
bass.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Handel. Israel in Egypt. (HWV 54, London
1739). Eloquentia (2 CDs, June 2010). Pierre Cao, Arsys
Bourgogne, Concerto Köln.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Handel. Israel in Egypt. (HWV 54, London
1739). KuK 17 (2 CDs, April 2010).
Details.
Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor.
Miriam Allan,
soprano; Sarah Wegener, soprano; David Allsopp, countertenor;
Benjamin Hulett, tenor; Steffen Balbach, bass; Daniel Raschinsky,
bass.
DE |
| Schmelzer, Legrenzi, Valentini, Froberger,
Leopold I, Kaiser Ferdinand III.
Felix Austria - Works for Viola da Gamba Consort. cpo 777
451-2 (1 CD,
April 2010). Klaus Mertens, baritone. Simone Eckert, Hamburger
Ratsmusik.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
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| Francesco Durante (1684-1755). Vespro breve
- Miserere. Tactus TC.680403 (1 CD, April 2010).
Details. Giovanni Acciai, Sagittario, Il Dodicino. Plus
organ pieces by Ascanio Maione & Giovanni Maria Trabaci.
Davide Pozzi, organ.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Charpentier. David & Jonathan H.490 (1688).
Tragédie biblique. Livret du Père Bretonneau. ABC Classics
4763691 (2 CDs, December 2009).
Details /
Libretto (pdf) (Dyslexic,
right-justified English version.) Anthony Walker, Cantillation,
Orchestra of the Antipodes.
David: Anders Dahlin, tenor; Jonathan: Sara Macliver, soprano; Saül:
Dean Robinson, bass; Achis: Richard Anderson, bass; Joabel:
Simon Lobelson, baritone; La Pythonisse: Paul McMahon, tenor; L'Ombre de Samuel:
David Parkin, bass.
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DE |
CA |
JP |
 Pietro Antonio Cesti (1623-1669).
Le Disgrazie d'Amore (Vienna 1667). Hyperion CDA 67771/2 (2 CDs,
January 2010).
Details /
Sleeve notes & libretto (pdf). Carlo Ipata, Auser Musici. Allegria:
Cristiana Arcari, soprano; Venere: Maria Grazia Schiavo,
soprano; Amicizia: Elena Cecchi Fedi, soprano; Amore: Paolo
Lopez, sopranist; Adulazione: Gabriella Martellacci, contralto;
Avarizia: Martín Oro, countertenor; Cortigiano: Francisco
Ghelardini, countertenor: Inganno: Carlos Natale, tenor; Amante:
Anicio Zorzi Guistiniani, tenor; Vulcano: Furio Zanasi,
baritone; Bronte: Antonio Abete, bass; Sterope: Enea Sorini,
bass; Piragmo: Luigi De Donato, bass. "[T]his set is not only an
artistic triumph in its own right, but also one of the most
important additions to the catalogue we're likely to see this
year." Brian Robins, EMR 134:25 (February 2010). I
agree. Indeed, this is one of the best recordings to date of a
17th Century Italian opera. I recommend printing out and reading
the interesting libretto before listening. Amazingly, a reader
advises that it was panned by Gramophone, which usually
publishes favorable reviews of anything released by advertisers.
This is such a fine performance of great music that even a
Gramophone twit with a short attention span should have been
able to appreciate brief excerpts, unless he sold his unopened
review copy for a couple of quid.
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| Telemann. Die Tageszeiten TVWV 20:39 (1757)/
Nun danket alle Gott TVWV 1:1166. Carus 83.439 (1 CD,
January 2010). Fritz Näf, L'arpa festante, Basler Madrigalisten.
Monika Mauch, soprano; Gerhild Romberger, contralto; Hans Jörg
Mammel, tenor; Gotthold Schwarz, bass. While the 1991 Max
recording of Die Tageszeiten was certainly adequate, this
fine new version clearly surpasses it. Die Tageszeiten is
comprised of four cantatas for the four times of the day,
morning, noon, evening and night, for soprano with trumpet, alto
with viola da gamba, tenor with 2 flutes & bass with 2 oboes &
bassoon respectively. The short (9:41) festive work, Nun
danket alle Gott, which I had not heard previously, is
scored for trumpets and horns. There is only one surviving
copy which does not indicate the date of composition (probably
early) or the occasion for which it was composed. Both the
performance and recording are excellent.
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Haydn. Applausus (Jubiläum Virtutis Palatium). Cantata Hob
XXIVa:6 (1768). Capriccio C5036 (2 CDs, 2010). Andreas Spering,
Capella Augustina. Temperantia: Anna Palimina, soprano;
Prudentia: Marina de Liso,
mezzo-soprano; Justitia: Donát Havár, tenor; Fortitudo: Johannes Weisser,
bass;
Theologia: Andreas Wolf, bass.
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 Haydn. Die wüste Insel - 1802 German
version of L'isola disabitata. dhm 88697579852 (1 CD, January 2010).
Track list /
Details (pdf). Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester.
Constanze: Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano; Silvia: Barbara Kraus,
soprano; Fernando: Christian Zenker, tenor; Enrico: Reinhard
Mayr, bass. Fine performance and recording. Haydn composed a new
final quartet for the German version.
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| Samuel Arnold (1740-1802). Polly (1777
revision). Naxos
8.660241 (1 CD, April
2010).
Libretto (pdf). Kevin Mallon, Aradia Ensemble. Laura Albino, soprano; Bud
Roach, tenor; Jason Nedecky, baritone. Polly was John
Gay's sequel to The Beggar's Opera, in which Polly
follows Macheath to the West Indies, where she is sold as a
slave and Macheath is disguised as a black pirate. It's
essentially a play with arias and choruses. Pepusch composed
music in 1729, but Polly was not performed at that time.
Arnold composed new arias and choruses, but used much of
Pepusch's original music, including movements after the march
from Handel's Scipione and John Stanley's Trumpet
Voluntary and other popular songs. This is a nice performance,
and the complete play can be downloaded from the Naxos website.
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| Chaconne. Naïve Opus
111 OP 30468 (1 CD, June 2010).
Details. Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord.
Chaconnes and passacailles by Frescobaldi, Cabanilles, Storace,
Couperin, Kerll, Purcell, Ligeti, Muffat, Dagincour, Fischer,
Handel, Forqueray and Alessandrini.
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 J.S. Bach.
Matthäus Passion BWV 244.
Challenge Classics CC 72357 (3 CDs, January 2010).
Details
/ "A
barefooted, vulnerable St Matthew Passion of sky-high
perfection" -- Because of construction in Leuven, recording
had to be done at night. "During the first night a full live
recording was made. And during daytime [producer] Bert [van der
Wolf] did his production work, so that the next three nights he
knew exactly what parts still had to be done. It was a very
intense and unique process." Sigiswald Kuijken, La
Petite Bande. Choir I: Gerlinde Sämann, soprano; Petra Noskaiová,
contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan van der Crabben, baritone.
Choir II: Marie Kuijken, soprano;
Patrizia Hardt, contralto; Bernhard Hunziger, tenor; Marcus
Niedermeyr, bass. A fine performance and recording that I can
recommend. I haven't heard John Butt's recording and thus have
no basis for comparison.
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| J.S. Bach. Passio Secundum Johannem.
Zig-Zag Territoires 100301/2 (2 CDs, March 2010).
Details. Benoît Haller, La Chapelle Rhénane. Evangelist:
Julian Prégardien, tenor; Jesus: Benoît Arnould, baritone; Peter
& Pilate: Dominik Wörner, bass; Salomé Haller, soprano; Tanya
Aspelmeier, soprano; Julien Freymuth, countertenor; Pascal
Bertin, countertenor; Michael Feyfar, tenor (solos); Philippe
Froeliger, tenor. 1725 version except for the introductory
chorus from the 1724 version.
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 J.S. Bach. Markus-Passion.
Carus 83.244 (1 CD, February 2010).
Performance review /
Malcolm Bruno, Towards a Markus-Passion. Choir & Organ,
Nov/Dec 2005 (pdf) /
Review by Johan Van Veen. Michael Willens, Kölner Akademie. Anja
Zügner, soprano; Dorothea Wagner, soprano; Clare Wilkinson,
mezzo-soprano; Silvia Janak, mezzo-soprano; Ensemble Amarcord:
Wolfram Lattke, tenor; Martin Lattke, tenor; Frank Ozimek,
baritone; Daniel Knauft, bass; Holger Krause, bass. Dominique
Horwitz, Speaker. Hellmann reconstruction revised by Andreas
Glöckner (Carus 2001).
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|
J.S. Bach. Magnificat BWV 243; Missa BWV 235. Mirare MIR 102 (1 CD,
November 2009).
Details.
Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort. Maria Keohane, soprano; Anna
Zander, soprano; Carlos Mena, countertenor; Hans-Jörg Mammel,
tenor; Stephan MacLeod, bass. OVPP.
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| Johann Christoph Rothe (1653-1700). Matthäus-Passion
(1697). cpo (2 CDs, April 2010). Bernhard Klapprott, Cantus
Thuringia, Capella Thuringia. Hans Jörg Mammel, tenor; Wolf
Matthias Friedrich, bass; Gudrun Sidonie Otto, soprano; Margaret Hunter,
soprano; Christoph Dittmar, countertenor; Beat Duddeck,
countertenor.
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 Francesco Feo (1691-1761). Passio secundum Joannem.
Passacaille 964 (1 CD, March 2010).
Details /
Review by Johan Van Veen. Lorenzo Ghielmi, La Divina Armonia.
Ancilla: Peggy Bélanger, soprano; Barbara Schmidt-Gaden,
mezzo-soprano (arias); Evangelista: Doron Schleifer,
countertenor; Pilatus: Mirko Guadagnini, tenor; Jesus: Krystian Adam, tenor;
Petrus: Felice Isola, tenor; Servus: Yashuharu Fukushima, tenor;
Servus: Davide Fior, tenor. This is an outstanding recording and
clearly is the best recording to date of Feo's music. The
ritornello in Track 15 sounds quite similar to the opening of
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
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| Benedetto Marcello. Cassandra (Odi, o Troia)
/ Concerto for violin arranged for solo harpsichord by J.S.
Bach, BWV 981.
Aeon AECD 1987 (1 CD, March 2010). Kai Wessel, countertenor. David
Blunden, harpsichord. J.C.F. Bach later set the same Cassandra
libretto for alto, strings and continuo in a galant style, with
mostly accompanied recitative and arioso, but concluding with
two long, da capo arias. An excellent recording by Max et al. is
available on cpo.
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 Jean Gilles. Lamentations / Motet "Diligam te, domine"
(1701).
Ligia Digital Lidi 0202212-0 (1 CD, March 2010). Jean-Marc Andrieu, Orchestre Les Passions, Choeur de chambre Les Éléments (Joël
Suhubiette). Anne Magoüet, soprano; Vincent Lièvre-Picard,
haute-contre; Bruno Boterf, tenor; Alain Buet, baritone,
Volny Hostiou, serpent. As with the fine 2008 recording of
the Gilles Requiem and a different grand motet by the same
forces, the serpent is restored to its rightful place in French
baroque sacred music.
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|
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630). Opella Nova & Fontana
d'Israel.
Hortus (1 CD, April 2010).
Photos of the recording session. Michel Laplénie, baritone &
director, Sagittarius.
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| Parodies spirituelles & spiritualité en
parodies. Music Ficta MF 8010 (1 CD, April
2010).
Details.
Céline Scheen, soprano. Jean-Luc Impe, archlute & direction, Les
Menus-Plaisirs du Roy. Settings of popular songs in France
around 1700 to sacred lyrics.
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| Pergolesi. Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, Flute
Concerto, Sinfonia.
Channel Classics CCS SA 29810 (1 CD, May 2010). Florilegium.
Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor.
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| Pergolesi. Dixit Dominus; Salve Regina in A
minor; Confitebor tibi, Domine; Chi non ode e chi non vede. DG-Archiv
477 8465 (1 CD, March 2010).
Details. Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Coro della
Radiotelevisione Svizzera. Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Rosa Bove,
contralto; Julia Kleiter, soprano; Lucio Gallo, baritone. The
three Abbado Pergolesi CDs will be reissued in a box set in
August 2010.
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| Pergolesi. Missa S. Emidio, Salve Regina in
F minor, Manca la guida al piè, Laudate pueri Dominum. DG-Archiv
477 8463 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details. Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Mozart, Coro della
Radiotelevisione Svizzera. Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Sara Mingardo,
contralto; Verónica Cangemi,
soprano; Teresa Romano, soprano.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Vespro della Beata
Vergine for five voices and basso continuo.
Atma (1 CD, May 2010). Harry van der Kamp, Nederlands Kamerkoor.
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|
Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas & Chamber Music. Chandos
Chaconne 0768 (1 CD, April
2010). Clara Rottsolk, soprano. Tempesta di Mare Chamber
Players. "Quella pace gradita", "Non sò qual più m'ingombra"
(Cantata pastorale), "Bella dama di nome Santa", Concerto IX.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti & Francesco Durante.
Umana e inumana: Cantatas. Arion (1 CD, March 2010). Jay
Bernfeld, Fuoco e Cenere. Isabelle Poulenard, soprano;
Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano.
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|
Purcell. Love Songs. Carus 83.435 (1 CD, March 2010).
Dorothee Mields, soprano. Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten
Compagney.
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|
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722-1794). Sonate per flauto
traverso e basso. ORF (1
CD, July 2010).
Details. Linde Brunmayr-Tutz, traverso; Lars Ulrik
Mortensen, harpsichord.
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|
J-F Rebel. Les Éléments. Vivaldi. Four Seasons. Harmonia Mundi
HMC 902061 (1 CD, February 2010). Midori Seiler, violin. Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio,
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
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| Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654). Canciones Sacrae. Challenge Classics
(1 CD, May 2010). Vox Luminis.
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| Frescobaldi. Frescobaldi Edition vol. 7:
Arie musicali - Complete.
Brilliant Classics 93796 (2 CDs, March 2010.)
Details. Bettina Hoffmann, Modo
Antiquo. Elena Cecchi Fedi, soprano; Silvia Vajente, soprano;
Lucia Sciannimanico, mezzo-soprano; Paolo Fanciullacci, tenor;
Gabriele Lombardi, baritone.
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| Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705). Sei
partite à violino senza basso accompagnato (1696). Arcana
A354 (1 CD, April 2010).
Review by Johan van Veen. Gunar Letzbor, violin.
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|
Galuppi. Sonatas for Keyboard Instruments.
Accent ACC 24227 (1 CD, May 2010).
Details. Luca Guglielmi, organ, harpsichord,
fortepiano & clavichord.
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|
Johan Joachim Agrell (1701-1765). Orchestral
Works.
Aeolus AE 10047 (1 CD, May 2010).
Details /
Agrell family website. Aapo Häkkinen, director and
harpsichord, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra.
Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, violin; Pauliina
Fred, traverso; Jasu Moisio, oboe. 3 sinfonias,
a violin concerto, an oboe concerto, and and
double concerto for flute and harpsichord. From
the excerpts on the Aeolus website, which are
very well recorded, it's clear that Agrell was
strongly influenced by Neapolitan composers like
Vinci.
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Philippo Martino. Lute Trios (1730-1733). dhm 88697690282
(1 CD, May 2010).
Details. The Age of Passions: Lee Santana, lute; Hille Perl,
viola da gamba; Petra Müllejans, violin; Karl Kaiser, flute.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Complete Keyboard Works,
vol. 2. Atma (2 CDs, May 2010). Alexander Weimann, organ.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Vol. 1. Toccatas. Atma
ACD 22321 (1 CD, 2005). Alexander Weimann, harpsichord.
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W.F. Bach. Complete Keyboard Concertos. Brilliant
Classics 94057 (2 CDs, June 2010). Claudio Astronio, harpsichord
& director, Harmonices Mundi.
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C.P.E. Bach. Symphonies for Hamburg. Brilliant Classics
94042 (1 CD, April 2010). Didier Talpain, Solamente Naturali.
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|
Francesco Mancini. 12 Sonatas for Recorder. Brilliant
Classics 94058 (2 CDs, June 2010). Ensemble Tripla Concordia.
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Giovanni Benedetto Platti. Chamber Music. Brilliant
Classics 94007 (1 CD, June 2010). Ensemble Cordia.
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UK |
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| Vivaldi. La Follia. dhm 88697652162 (1 CD,
April 2010).
Details.
Enrico Onofri, Imaginarium Ensemble.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
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| C.P.E. Bach. Organ Works. Regent REGCD
314 (1 CD, November 2009).
Details. Thomas Trotter, the Mitterreither (1773) / Flentrop
(1973) organ of Eton College School Hall.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Gradus ad Parnassum - The Art of South
German Organ Music. Cantate (1 CD, April 2010). Christian Brembeck, 1737 Baumeister
organ at Klosterkirche
Maihingen. Works by Froberger, Kindermann, Kerll, Murschhauser,
Kayser, Maichelbeck & Muffat.
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J.S. Bach. Das wohltemperirte Clavier Vol. 2. Harmonia
Mundi (2 CDs, May 2010). Richard Egarr, harpsichord.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre.
Sonates pour violon, viole obligée & b.c. Mirare (1 CD, May 2010).
Benjamin Perrot, La Rêveuse.
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FR |
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|
Albinoni. Homage to a Spanish Grandee - Concertos from Op. 10.
Chandos Chaconne (1 CD, May 2010). Simon Standage, Collegium
Musicum 90.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Vivaldi. Opera Overtures - Sinfonie dai Drammi
per Musica. Brilliant Classics (1 CD, May 2010). Federico Maria
Sardelli, Modo Antiquo.
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|
Tobias Hume (c.1569-1645). Poeticall Musicke.
Zig-Zag Territoires (1 CD, May 2010). Marianne Muller, Pau
Marcos & Liam Fennelly, viols.
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FR |
DE |
| Charles Desmazures (1670-1736). Pièces de
Simphonie (1702) - Suites I & III. Musièpoca MEPCD 001 (1
CD, February 2010).
Details. Dani Espasa, Vespres d'Arnadi. This fine recording
includes two of the seven suites published by Desmazures,
organist of the Marseille cathedral, after performing them for
13-year-old Maria Luisa Gabriela during a stop on her voyage
from Turin to Barcelona to become the next Queen of Spain.
Stylistically, they remind me of orchestral music by J-F Rebel,
who was four years older than Demazures, and there are also
similarities to the virtually contemporaneous Symphonies pour
les Soupers du Roy by Delalande. Recommended. |
| Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia (1685-1743). 12
Sonate da Cimbalo di piano e forte.
Brilliant Classics (3 CDs, March 2010.) Andrea Coen, fortepiano.
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FR |
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| Domenico Alberti (c.1717-1740). VIII Sonate
per clavicembalo Op.1. Concerto (1 CD, February 2010).
Filippo Emanuele Ravizzo, harpsichord.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP |
 M-A Charpentier. L'Orgue historique de Nay
(1673). Pierre Verany PV 709101 (1 CD, November 2009).
Details.
Jean-Paul Lécot, organ. Dominique Visse, countertenor. Ouverture
de Médée, Suite de Noëls, Récit et Air d'Orphée descendant aux
enfers, Suite du IIe ton, Air de David et Jonathas, Chaconne du
Rendez-vous des Tuileries, Gloria de la Messe pour les
instruments, Salve Regina des Jésuites, Suite du Ier ton.
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FR |
DE |
 Reinhold Keiser. Passion Music. cpo 999
821-2 (1
CD, April 2010). Thomas Ihlenfeldt, Capella Orlandi Bremen. Eeva
Tenkanen, soprano; Doerthe Maria Sandmann, soprano; Olivia Vermeulen,
mezzo-soprano; Knut Schoch,
tenor; Julian Podger, tenor; Raimonds Spogis, bass; Matthias
Jahrmärker, bass. Motet: "Ich
liege und schlafe ganz mit" (21:03); fragment of the Lukas-Passion "Wir
gingen alle in die Irre" (31:37) & "Seelige
Erlösungs-Gedancken" (26:26).
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DE |
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| Reinhard Keiser. Markuspassion. Chrismon
2035 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details. Ralf Popken, Capella Sancti Georgi, Musica Alta
Ripa. Georg Poplutz, tenor. Possibly by Nikolas Bruhns rather than Keiser.
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DE |
| Frescobaldi. Il Regno d'Amore. Ricercar (1 CD,
April
2010). Leonardo Garcia-Alarcòn, Ensemble Clematis. Mariana
Florès, soprano.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Pachelbel. Vespers. Signum SIGCD 198 (1
CD, March 2010). Kah-Ming Ng, Charivari Agréable, The King's
Singers.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP |
| Handel. Handel in Darmstadt. Analekta
CD-29121 (1 CD, March
2010).
Details. Geneviève Soly, harpsichord by Matthias Griewisch
after Mietke. Pieces by Handel and Graupner from a manuscript
copied in Darmstadt around 1720.
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DE |
CA |
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| John Dowland. Clear or Cloudy - Lute Songs.
Musica Ficta MF 8009 (1 CD, February
2010).
Details
/ Performers'
website. Valeria Mignaco, soprano. Alfonso Marín, lute.
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FR |
DE |
| Allegri, Biber, Capezzuto, Cazzati, Ferrari,
Gragnaniello, Guissani, Legrnzi, Mealli, Merula, Monteverdi,
Luigi Rossi, Sances. Via Crucis - Rappresentazione della
Gloriosa Passione della Cristo. Virgin 5099969457708 (1
CD + 1 DVD, March 2010). Chrisitna Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata &
Ensemble Barbara Fortuna (Corsican Choir). Núria Rial, soprano;
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Le Jeune, de Castro, Costeley, Regnard, Segni
da Modena, Goudimel, Coste, Bassano, Pevernage, Michael
Praetorius, du Caurroy, Bonnet.
Les Amours de Mai - Love Songs in the Age of Ronsard. MSR
Classics MS 1304 (1 CD, December
2009). Details.
Parthenia. Julianne Baird, soprano. Robert Mealy, violin.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP |
| Monteverdi. Vespro della beata vergine.
K617220 (2 CDs, January 2010).
Details. Gabriel Garrido, Ensemble Elyma, Les Sacqueboutiers
de Toulouse, Coro Antonio Il Verso, Coro Madrigalia. Emanuela
Galli & Adriana Fernández, sopranos; Martín Oro & Fabian
Schofrin, coutertenors; Mario Cecchetti, Rodrigo del Pozo, Pablo
Pollitzer, Fracesc Garrigosa, tenors; Furio Zanasi, baritone;
Daniele Carnovich & Ivan Garcia, basses.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Giovanni Felice Sances (c.1600-1679). Dulci
Amor Iesu. Ricercar RIC 292 (1 CD, January
2010). Nicholas Achten, Scherzi Musicali.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Telemann. Cantatas. J.S. Bach & Hertel.
Organ works. NCA 60209 (1 CD, April
2010).
Details. Musica Angelica: Robin Johannsen, soprano; Gonzalo
Ruiz, oboe; Jeremy Joseph, organ.
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UK |
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DE |
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| Handel. Neun Deutsche Arien HMV 202-210 /
Gloria / Trio Sonata HWV 392. BIS 1615 (1 CD, December 2009).
Emma Kirkby, soprano. London Baroque. These are new recordings
and not reissues of the Kirby/London Baroque German Arias on EMI
and the Kirkby/London Baroque Gloria on BIS.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
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| André Raison (c.1650-1719). Messes d'Orgue des 3° et 8°
tons. Plain-chant alterné d'Henry Du Mont. Psalmus PSAL
009 (2 CDs,
February
2010). Jean-Patrice Brosse, organs of Cintegabelle and Prytanée
militaire de La Flèche. Ensemble Vox Cantoris, director
Jean-Christophe Candau.
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DE |
| Musique Française des XVIIe et XVIIIe
Siècles.
Hortus 076 (1 CD, March
2010). Motets by Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728); Titelouze,
Ave Marie Stella; Boyvin, selections from his livre d'orgue;
Leclair, violin sonata; F. Couperin, La Sultane; Gaspard
Corrette, organ music. Benjamin Alard, organ at St-Ouen de Pont-Audemer;
Thomas van Essen, baritone; Marie Rouquié, violin; Julien
Léonard, viol.
UK |
FR |
DE |
| Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789). Les Claviers
Expressifs de Pascal Taskin.
Lyrinx LYR 2262 (1 CD, March
2010). Works for two claviers. Pierre Goy & Nicole Hostettler,
Taskin fortepiano & Ruckers-Taskin harpsichord.
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FR |
DE |
| Tesoros de Aránzazu Vol. 1: Arias with Organ
Obligato. Verso VRS 2077 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details.
Elena López Jáuregui, soprano. Norberto Broggoni, organ.
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Muzio Clementi (1752-1832). Early Piano
Sonatas. Susan Alexander-Max, fortepiano.
Vol. 3.
Details. Naxos 8.570475 (1
CD, April 2010).
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CA
Vol. 2.
Details. Naxos 8.557695 (1 CD, 2007).
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JP
Vol. 1.
Details. Naxos 8.555808 (1 CD, 2002).
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| Buxtehude. VII Suonate, Op.1. Chandos
Chaconne CHAN 0766 (1 CD, January
2010).
Details. The Purcell Quartet.
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Tunder, Meder, Weckmann, Biber, Bernhard, Buns. Harmoniae
Sacrae - 17th Century German Sacred Cantatas. Ramée 0905 (1
CD, February 2010). Details.
Mieneke van der Velden, L'Armonia Sonora. Hana Blažíková,
soprano; Peter Kooij, bass. François Fernandez & Sayuri
Yamagata, violin; Kaori Uemura & Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda,
viola da gamba; Peter Rikkers, violone; Leo van Doeselaar,
organ.
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FR |
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| Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Die Sieben
Worte (SWV 478, before 1658) / Johannes-Passion (SWV 481, 1666).
da capo 8.226093 (1
CD, March 2010).
Details. Paul Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen.
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FR |
DE |
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| Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Symphoniae Sacrae I
(1629). dhm 88697524182 (2
CDs, March 2010).
Details. Roland Wilson, Musica Fiata. Monika Mauch, soprano;
Hans-Jörg Mammel, tenor; Markus Brutscher, tenor. Wilson
previously recorded Symphoniae Sacrae II & III.
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| Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Musikalische Exequien /
Bußpsalmen. cpo 777 410-2 (1
CD, March 2010). Manfred Cordes, Weser-Renaissance.
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DE |
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| Carissimi. Oratorios: Jonas, Ezechia, Jephte,
Job. ATMA 2622 (1 CD, February 2010).
Alexander Weimann, Les Voix Baroques. Susie LeBlanc, soprano;
Maria Keohane, soprano; Catherine Webster, soprano; Josée
Lalonde, contralto; Matthew White, countertenor; Lawrence
Wiliford, tenor; Colin Balzer, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone;
Tyler Duncan, baritone.
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DE |
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| Handel. Israel in Egypt. (HWV 54, London
1739). BR Klassik (2 CDs, March 2010).
Details. Peter Dijkstra, Concerto Köln. Rosemary Joshua,
soprano; Atsuko Suzuki, soprano; Gerhild Romberger, contralto;
Kobie van Rensburg, tenor; Simon Pauly, bass; Thomas Hamberger,
bass.
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DE |
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Opera omnia for
keyboard - vol. III. Tactus TC 661913 (1 CD, March 2010).
Details. Francesco Tasini, organ.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti, Francesco Mancini,
Domenico Sarri. Manoscritto di Napoli 1725. Sony
88697564082 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details.
Bart Coen, recorder and director, Ensemble Per Flauto. Ryo
Terakado & An Van Laethem, violins; Mika Akiha, viola; Ronan
Kernoa, cello; Herman Stinders, harpsichord & organ.
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| Handel. Mezzo-soprano Opera Arias. Virgin
5099969457401 (1 CD,
February 2010).
Details. Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor. Diego Fasolis,
I Barocchisti.
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| Rosenmüller (1619-1684). Deutsche Geistliche Konzerte -
German Sacred Concertos. Christophorus CHR 77319 (1 CD,
January 2010). Arno Paduch, Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble.
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| Handel. Duets. Chandos Chaconne CHAN 0767 (1 CD, March 2010).
Harry Bicket, The English Concert. Rosemary Joshua, soprano;
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano.
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| Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690). Concerti musicali per uso
di Chiesa Op. 1 - Musica & Vespera. Dynamic CDS 653 (2
CDs, February 2010).
Details (pdf). Riccardo Favero, Oficina Musicum.
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Haydn. 12 London Symphonies. Naïve V5176 (4 CDs, March 2010).
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble.
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Vivaldi. Complete Music for Plucked Instruments. Brilliant
Classics (2 CDs, April 2010). L'Arte dell'Arco.
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Haydn. Concertos for Harpsichord & Violin. Decca (1 CD,
April 2010). Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina.
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Haydn. Violin Concertos. Brilliant Classics (1 CD, March
2010).
Federico Guglielmo, violin & director, L'Arte dell'Arco.
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Haydn. Concertini & Divertimenti for Keyboard Trio.
Brilliant Classics (1 CD, February 2010). Roberto Loreggian, fortepiano & director, L'Arte dell'Arco.
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DE |
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| J.S. Bach. Clavier-Übung I - Partitas.
Alpha (2 CDs,
March 2010). Benjamin Alard, harpsichord.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
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| Michelle Corrette (1707-1795). Les Délices
de la solitude - 6 sonatas for violoncello & b.c. Coviello
Classics 21001 (1 CD, January 2010). Bassorum vox: Seung-Yeon
Lee, cello; Se-Hee Lee, cello; Fernando Reyes Ferrón, theorbo &
guitar; Mami Kurumada, harpsichord.
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| Leonardo Leo, Giuseppe de Majo (1697-1771);
Nicola Ugolino (late 18th Century); Niccolò Grillo (18th
Century); Nicola Fiorenza (c.1700-1764).
Cantate Napoletane del '700. Eloquentia EL 0919 (1 CD,
May 2009).
Details /
Review by Johan Van Veen. Antonio Florio, Cappella della
Pietà de'Turchini. Pino de Vittorio, tenor; Alessandro Ciccolini, violin; Tommaso Rossi,
flute; Ugo Di Giovanni, archlute.
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| Antonio Bertali (1605-1669). La Strage
Degl'Innocenti
/ Carissimi. Historia Divitis. ORF (1 CD, March 2010).
Details. Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle München. Ulrike
Hofbauer, soprano; Kristine Jaunalksne, soprano; Ulrike
Andersen, contralto; Alex Potter, countertenor; Robert Sellier,
tenor; Manuel Warwitz, tenor; Dominik Wörner, bass; Manfred
Bittner, bass.
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| Henri Du Mont. Cantica Sacra.
Ricercar (1 CD, February 2010). Bruno Boterf, Choeur de Chambre
de Namur, Les Solisites.
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| Matthias Weckmann. Wie liegt die Stadt so
wüste - Sacred Motets.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 902034 (1 CD, February 2010). Konrad
Junghänel, Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino.
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| Francesco Cavalli. Magnificat and other sacred
works.
Dynamic (1 CD, January 2010). Bruno Gini, Ensemble La Pifarescha,
Coro Claudio Monteverdi.
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| Handel, Marcello, Porpora, Sartorio, Scarlatti.
Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias. DGG 477 8763 (1 CD, April 2010).
Details. Patricia Petibon, soprano. Andrea Marcon, Venice Baroque
Orchestra.
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 Manuscrit de Vaudry de Saizenay (1668-1742). AS Musique
ASM 004 (1 CD,
September 2009).
Details. Claire Antonini,
11-course baroque lute by Paul Thomson. This is a superb
recording, in every respect -- the music, the richly ornamented
performance, the lute, the recording engineering and the room
acoustics. Claire Antonini has chosen 32 pieces, mostly dances,
from the 450 collected and copied by Vaudry de Saizenay. From
the liner note by Claude Chauvel: "His book ... is full of
technical details and interpretative signs such as fingering,
tenues (held notes), ornaments, harpégements (arpeggiated
chords), and separations. In this unique source for many pieces,
he sometimes corrects the text or clarifies the attributions."
From the liner note by Claire Antonini: "This selection not only
reflects my musical affinities but also satisfies two important
criteria: * Fidelity to the manuscript's spirit and to its
organisation of the modes, richness of musical forms, and
multitude of composers - be they renowned lutenists like
Gaultier or de Visée, others represented by only a few pieces,
like Emond or Jacquesson, or simply anonymous musicians. *
Clarity of the musical discourse.... [T]he alteration of dance
suites and individual pieces, enriched by the play of changing
keys, allows the composers to respond one to another, to assert
their personalities and richness of their styles - Gaultier's
boldness and originality, Gallot's melancholy, or de Visée's
nobility, for example."
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| Charles Mouton (1626-1699). The Mystery of
Sign. Mouthon - Concerti à 5. Challenge Classics (1 CDs, January 2010).
Details (pdf). Gunnar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria. These
apparently include arrangements of Mouton lute pieces.
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| Rameau. Opera Airs Transcribed for Organ.
Alpha (1 CD, February 2010).
Details. Yves Rechsteiner,
Moucherel organ of Cintegabelle. From Rechsteiner's arrangements
of Rameau works for organ, published by
Le Chant du Monde.
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| J.S. Bach, Buxtehude, Froberger, Reincken,
Kerll. Die Quellen des jungen Bach.
Alpha 149 (1 CD, January 2010). Céline Frisch, harpsichord.
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| Handel, Pranzer, Kreutzer, Blumenthal, Stark.
Clarimonia en Suite: Evolution of the Clarinet and its Music. Cavalli CCD
287 (1 CD, January 2010).
Details.
Clarimonia: Jochen Seggelke, Bernhard Kösling, Ekkehard Sauer.
Guest: Joaqim Palet.
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Haydn. Opera at Esterháza -- Arias for La Circe (pasticcio)
and for insertion in operas by other composers. BIS
SACD-1811 (1 CD, December 2009). Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta
Wien. Miah Persson, soprano; Bernard Richter, tenor; Kristin
Chávez, mezzo-soprano; Iván Paley, baritone; Manfred Hemm, bass;
Christoph Genz, tenor.
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Telemann. "O woe! O woe! My canary is dead!" - Secular
cantatas and orchestral suites. Accent ACC 24199 (1 CD,
January 2010). Ewald Demeyere, Bach Concentus. Dorothee Mields,
soprano. Vinciane Baudhuin, oboe. The recording of the suites is
exceptional. In the cantatas, the soloist sounds more
reverberant than the orchestra. It's a fine performance
nonetheless of two previously unrecorded secular cantatas.
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Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich - Baroque Bass Cantatas
from the Mügeln Archive. cpo 777 298-2 (1 CD, February 2010). Klaus Mertens, bass-baritone. Shalev Ad-El,
Accademia Daniel. Emanuel Kegel: Nichts ist süßer als die Liebe;
Christian Wolff: Mit Fried und Freud fahr ich dahin; Johann
Theodor Römhild: Es geht kein
andrer Weg zum Himmel & Meine Sonne stehet stille; Hoffmann:
Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich; Johann Donati: Mein Hertzens-Hauß
bereite dich; Telemann: Kaum ist der Heyland auf der Erden.
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| Handel. Handel with Care - Opera and
Oratorio Arias. dhm 88697526952 (1 CD, July 2010).
Details. Wolfgang Katschner,
Lautten Compagney.
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Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Corelli. Travelogues of Italy. Winter
& Winter 910 158-2 (1 CD, February
2010).
Details (pdf). Susanne Rydén, soprano. Die
Freitagsakademie. Includes the Handel cantatas Mi palpita il
cor (HWV 132) & Il Delirio Amoroso (HWV 99).
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| Handel & Giuseppe Sammartini. Sonatas for a
German Flute. Accent ACC 24191 (January, 2010). Les Buffardins --
Frank Theuns & Marc Hantaï, flutes; Rainer Zipperling, cello; Siebe Henstra,
harpsichord.
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| J.C.F. Bach. Concerti - Bach-Söhne III.
Carus 83.306 (1 CD, January 2010). Gottfried von der Goltz,
Freiburger Barockorchester. Christine Schornsheim, harpsichord.
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| Handel. Alexander's Feast HWV 75 & Ode for
St. Cecilia's Day HWV 76. Naxos (1 CD, February 2010).
Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge
Kantorei. Gerlinde Sämann, soprano; Knut Schoch, tenor; Klaus
Mertens,
bass.
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JP |
 Froberger. Suites 1649 & 1656. Naïve Ambroisie AM
148 (1 CD, February
2010). Christophe Rousset, harpsichord (Couchet 1652).
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Haydn. Haydn and the Art of Variation. Metronome
METCD 1085 (1 CD, January 2010). Carole Cerasi, fortepiano &
clavichord. Sonata in C major HobXVI/48. Sonata in G major
HobXVI/40. Sonata in D major HobXVI/19. Sonata in D major HobXVI/42.
Andante and Variations in F minor HobXVII/6.
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Handel. Venus & Adonis: Cantatas & Sonatas. dhm
88697630232 (1 CD, January 2010).
Details. Gemma Bertagnolli,
soprano. Alfredo Bernardini, Ensemble Zefiro.
Venus & Adonis (HWV 85) apparently was Handel's first setting of
an English text. Also includes Mi palpita il cor (HWV
132) and the German aria "Meine Seele hört im Seh".
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Charpentier, Lambert, Rameau. Ombre de mon amant - French
baroque arias. DG-Archiv 477 8610 8 (1 CD, January 2010).
Details. Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano. William
Christie, Les Arts Florissants.
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Handel. Apollo e Dafne HWV 122 / Dafne Suite HWV 4 / Concerto
Grosso Op. 6 No. 4. Avi 4260085532001 (1 CD, February 2010).
Bernhard Forck, Händelfestspielorchester Halle. Myrsini
Margariti, soprano; Nikolay Borchev, bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas. Naxos
Germany 8.551283 (1 CD,
December 2009).
Details. Susanna Crespo Held, soprano. Musica Poëtica. Io
son pur solo; Il Rossignuolo; Sento nel core; No marirei
contento; Lascia, deh, lasica. Booklet in German and Italian
only.
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| Leo, Pegolesi, Scarlatti. Sacred Music from
Naples. dhm 88697539442 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details.
Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco. Mary-Ellen Nesi,
mezzo-soprano; Catherine Jones, cello. This is one of my
favorite recordings of 2010. It includes 2 Salve Reginas
by Leo, 2 by Pergolesi, 1 by Scarlatti, and a cello concerto by
Leo.
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| Buxtehude, Telemann, J.S. Bach. Jesu meine
Freude - German
Baroque Cantatas vol. 2. Sony Vivarte 88697627402 (1 CD, January 2010).
Details. Stephan
MacLeod, director & bass, Gli Angeli Genève. Hana Blažíková,
soprano; Julia von Landsberg, soprano; Pascal Bertin,
countertenor; Jan Kobow, tenor. Buxtehude: Jesu, meine Freude
BuxWV 60; Telemann, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele TWV 1:1253-54;
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227; Jesus schläft, was soll ich
hoffen BWV 81; Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 180.
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| Buxtehude. Complete Organ Works vol. 2.
Hyperion CDA 67809 (1 CD, January 2010).
Details
/
Sleeve notes (pdf). Christopher Herrick, organ of Nidaros
Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway (1739-41, restored in 1994).
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New Releases in 2009
Bargains
 Lionel
Sawkins. A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard
de Lalande (1657-1726).
Details. 748 pages. Oxford University Press 2006.
Remaindered in March 2010 for $30.48 / £19.99. My periodic scan
for inexpensive remainder copies of this superb book, which has
a US list price of $335, finally was successful. It arrived,
securely packed, by air five days after I ordered it.
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Reissues of Particular Interest
A. Scarlatti. La Santissima Trinità. Virgin.
Biondi.
DE
Marin
Marais, Boismortier, Caix d'Hervelois, Canavas, Cappus, Barriere,
etc. Défense de la Basse de Viole contre les entreprises du
violon et les prétentions du violoncelle. Ricercar 244922 (3
CDs 1993). Philippe Pierlot, bass viol; François Fernandez,
violin; Hidemi Suzuki, cello; Ricercar Consort. Reissued in May 2010.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP
Bassani. La Morte Delusa. Tubéry. Opus 111. Highly
recommended!
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Alessandro Scarlatti. Humanità e Lucifero. Biondi.
Opus 111.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP
Festa Napolitana. Florio. Opus 111.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Charpentier. Messe en la mémoire d'un
prince / Pierre Tabart (1645-1716), Requiem, Te Deum, Magnificat.
Tubéry. Virgin (2 CDs but no texts, saving EMI a few cents per
copy at the expense of their customers).
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Vivaldi. Bajazet. Biondi. Virgin 4564592 (2 CDs).
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
The Handel Collection.
Coro 16080 (12 CDs, March 2010). Harry Christophers, The
Sixteen. Samson, Israel in Egypt, Esther, Alexander's Feast, and
aria/cantata recordings with Sarah Connolly, Ann Murray and Elin
Manahan Thomas.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Lully. Les Premiers Opéras Français: Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme, Les Fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus, Isis, Amadis. Accord
480 2871 (10 CDs). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
J.S. Bach. English Suites, French Suites, Klavierbüchlien
für Wilhelm Friedemann. Ambroisie (6 CDs). Christophe
Rousset, harpsichord.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
J.S. Bach. Complete Organ Works. Ricercar (16 CDs? The
last issue contained 18 CDs). Bernard Foccroulle. Budget reissue
of this excellent set performed on historical North German
organs.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Handel
Opera Collection. dhm
88697489402 (22
CDs, April 2009).
Details. This reissue includes the S. Kuijken recording of
Alessandro, which has been out of print for many years.
The best of the remaining opera recordings are Lotario
(Curtis), Partenope (Kuijken) & Rodelinda
(Schneider).
Of these, only Schneider's Rodelinda has been superseded
by a clearly superior recording. The others are of little or no interest: Malgoire's lackluster
Rinaldo, Serse & Tamerlano and the comically
incompetent old Rudel recording of Giulio Cesare. No
librettos are included or available online.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP Handel. 6 Operas: Rodrigo, Radamisto, Admeto,
Fernando, Arminio, Deidamia. Virgin 6958622 (15 CDs & 1
CD-ROM with booklet texts). Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Handel. Operas. Harmonia Mundi (9 CDs & 1
CD-ROM with pdf librettos of the operas only). René Jacobs. Guilio
Cesare, Flavio, Rinaldo, & Duetti
e Cantate da
camera from HM 1004.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Telemann.
Ino (Dramatic Cantata) / Overture in D (both c.1765). DG-Archiv.
Barbara Schlick, soprano. Goebel, MAK.
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP
Vivaldi Opera Edition. Naïve/Opus 111 OP 30470.
Reissues of the first six Opus 111 Vivaldi opera recordings &
Juditha Triumphans, plus the Alia Vox recording of Farnace. 27
CDs + 1 DVD + 208-page book. Recommended for the book and the
recordings, of L'Olimpiade, Orlando Fïnto Pazzo, and Juditha
Triumphans.
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DE |
CA |
JP
Vivaldi. Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine.
Opus 111/Naïve. Alessandrini.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Handel. Il Trionfo / Teseo / Amadigi. Warner (Erato),
6 CDs. Minkowski. Improved with new
typeset librettos with new aria translations (pdf)..
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Handel. La Resurrezione (Koopman). Semele et
al. (Gardiner). Warner (Erato).
Libretto (pdf).
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Vivaldi. Dorilla in Tempe. Pierre Verany. Bezzina.
Better performance than all but two of the disappointing Naïve
Vivaldi Edition opera recordings. The original release included a
libretto with an English translation, but there is no libretto
in the reissue. Yet again the record companies demonstrate their
insatiable greed and their complete lack of understanding of the
classical music business.
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DE
In the Studio / Forthcoming CDs
| Thomas Arne. Artaxerxes (1762). Linn Records (2 CDs, October 2010). Details. Ian Page, Classical Opera Company. Artaxerxes: Christopher Ainslie, countertenor; Artabanes: Andrew Staples, tenor; Arbaces: Caitlin Hulcup, mezzo-soprano; Rimenes: Steven Ebel, tenor; Mandane: Elizabeth Watts, soprano; Semira: Rebecca Bottone, soprano. The recitatives and final chorus were lost in 1808 in the fire that destroyed the Theatre Royal. Ian Page has written
substitute recitatives, and Duncan Druce has composed a new final chorus. |
| Vivaldi. Ercole su'l Termodonte. (RV
710, Rome 1723). Virgin Classics 94545 (2 CDs, November 2010). Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante.
Martesia: Diana Damrau, soprano; Orizia: Patrizia
Ciofi, soprano; Antiope:
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; Ippolita: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano;
Teseo: David Daniels,
countertenor; Alceste: Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor; Ercole: Rolando Villazón,
tenor; Telemone: Francesco Meli, tenor. Video interviews in
English & excerpts:
Romina Basso /
"Scorre il
fiume mormorando" /
"Occhio che il sol rimira";
Maria Grazia Schiavo /
"Amato ben"
/
"Da due venti un mar turbato";
Vivica Genaux;
Emanuela Galli;
Stefanie
Iranyi;
Philippe Jaroussky;
Carlo Vincenzo Allemano;
Filippo Adami. |
|
Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Atys. Musiques à la Chabotterie (3 CDs, September 2010).
Details. Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Lully ou le
Musicien du Soleil, Volume XI. Atys: Romain Champion, haute-contre;
Sangaride: Bénédicte Tauran, soprano; Cybèle: Amaya Domínguez,
mezzo-soprano; Célénus: Aimery Lefévre, baritone; Idas: Matthieu
Heim, bass; Doris: Maud Ryaux, soprano; Mélisse: Maïlys de
Villoutreys, soprano; Le Sommeil: Vincent Liévre-Picard, haute-contre. |
| Handel. Flavio, Rè de'Longobardi. (HWV
16, London 1723). Chandos (2 CDs, forthcoming October 2010).
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company. Guido: Iestyn Davies,
countertenor; Flavio: Tim Mead, countertenor; Emilia: Rosemary
Joshua, soprano; Teodata: Hilary Summers, contralto; Vitige:
Renta Pokupic; soprano; Ugone: Thomas Walker, tenor; Lotario:
Andrew Foster-Williams, bass. |
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Handel.
Ariodante. (HWV 33, London 1735). Recorded in January
2010. Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco. Ariodante:
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Ginevra: Karina Gauvin, soprano;
Polinesso: Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soparno; Dalinda: Sabina
Puertolas, soprano; Lurcanio: Hicholas Phan, tenor; Il Rè:
Matthew Brook, bass; Odoardo: Anicio Zorzi, tenor. |
| Handel. Giove in Argo (Self pasticcio
opera, HWV A14, London 1739). Recorded in Spring 2010. Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco.
Calisto: Karina Gauvin, soprano; Iside:
Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano; Diana: Theodora Baka, soprano;
Arete (Giove): Topi Lehtipuu, tenor; Osiris (Erosto): Vito Priante, bass;
Licaone: Gianluca Buratto, bass. Reconstructed by John Roberts, who
discovered the two "lost" arias by Francesco Araja, as reported
in his article "The Story of Imeneo" in the 2001 Händel-Jahrbuch.
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| Handel. Alessandro Severo.
(Self-pasticcio opera, HWV A13, London, 1738). MDG.
Recorded in July 2010. George Petrou, Orchestra of
Patras. Αlessandro: Μary-Ellen Nesi, mezzo-soprano;
Salustia: Lenia Safiropoulou, soprano; Giulia: Kristina
Hammarström, mezzo-soprano; Albina: Irini Karaianni,
mezzo-soprano; Claudio: Gemma Bertagnoli, soprano;
Marziano: Petros Magoulas, bass. Handel composed a fine,
new overture, which is on the CD "Emma Kirkby sings Mrs.
Arne." |
| Handel. Il Pastor Fido - First version,
HWV 8a, London 1712. Somm? Forthcoming, recording August 9-18,
2010 at Temple Church, London. David Bates,
La Nuove Musiche.
Amarilli: Lucy Crowe, soprano; Mirtillo: Anna Dennis, soprano;
Eurilla: Katherine Manley, soprano; Silvio: Clint Van Der Linde,
countertenor; Dorinda: Madeleine Shaw, mezzo-soprano; Tireno: Lisandro
Abadie, baritone. Eagerly anticipated! Handel's Italian pastoral
was a flop in London as a followup to his herioc and bombastic
Rinaldo, which starred Nicolini, considered by many to
be the world's greatest singer. "The Scene represented only ye
Country of Arcadia. ye Habits were old. -- ye Opera Short." The first version
of Il Pastor Fido has little in common musically with the
elaborate 1734 third version, an opera-ballet, the only version
recorded previously. |
| Domènec Terradellas (1713-1751). Sesostri
(Rome, 1751). RCOC. Forthcoming.
Details
(pdf) /
Score
available. Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara
(RCOC). Sesostri: Sunhae Im, soprano; Amasi: Anders J. Dahlin,
tenor; Nitocri: Verónica Cangemi, soprano; Artenice: Robin
Johannsen, soprano; Orgonte: Judith van Wanroij, soprano; Fanete:
Robin Tritschler, tenor. (Terradellas apparently was murdered in Rome in
1751, 21 years after Vinci met the same fate.) |
| Telemann. Käpitansmusik 1738. cpo 777
386-2 (2 CDs, 2010). Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das
Kleine Konzert. Veronika Winter, soprano; Cornelia Samuelis,
mezzo-soprano; Jan Kobow, tenor; Immo Schröder, tenor; Ekkehard
Abele, bass; Gregor Finke, bass. |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau. Naïs. Opéra pour
la Paix, 1749. Musique à la Chabotterie. (To be recorded in
April, 2011). Hugo Reyne, La Simphonie du Marais. Naïs: Mireille
Delunsch, soprano; Neptune: Jean-Paul Fouchéchourt, haute-contre; Tirésie:
Alain Buet, bass; Astérion: Matthias Vidal, tenor; Palémon:
Matthieu Helm, bass; Télénus: Arnaud Marzorati, baritone. |
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Antonio
Caldara. La Conversione di Clodoveo, Rè di Francia (1715).
ATMA (2 CDs 2010-11? Recorded in 2005). Alexander Weimann, Les Voix
Baroques. Clodoveo: Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano; Clotide:
Nathalie Paulin, soprano; San Remigio: Susie LeBlanc, soprano;
Uberto: Matthew White, countertenor. |
Recommended Interviews from Goldberg
Vincent Dumestre by Yutha Tep, Issue 37.
Martin Gester by Brian Robins, Issue 36.
Sigiswald Kuijken by Brian Robins, Issue 34, in which he discusses
the violoncello da spalla and holeless natural trumpet, among other matters.
Christophe Rousset by Brian Robins, Issue 33.
Also:
Jean-François Madeuf by Jeffrey Nussbaum on the Historic Brass
Society website (2006). J-FM: "I never play [natural trumpet] with holes. I only
did that when I was learning this very difficult (but so wonderful) instrument."
Early Music World -
new website by Brian Robins
A note about web browsers.
ORF and Philips included opera libretto files on
multi-session CDs, a now obsolete technology. The non-audio
files can't be opened in Windows 7 x64 Explorer, but you can
open and extract them with the free version of
IsoBuster.
"If one is to believe the historians of the
seventeenth century, stage directors did not yet
exist. What a fortunate age! One could attend an
opera without having to close one's eyes. One
could take delight in it, listen to it and watch
it at the same time, without feeling welling up
within oneself, scene by scene,
crescendo, rinforzando, that dull anger which is very bad for one's peace of mind." Philippe Beaussant
(La Monde de la Musique, April 2005), English translation in "Vivaldi in Scena: Thoughts on the Revival of Vivaldi's Operas" by Frédéric Delaméa in Vivaldi, Motezuma and the Opera Seria, Michael Talbot (ed.)
at 171-2 (Brepols 2008).
I'm still waiting for even one of the many conductors of
baroque Italian opera performances with organ, guitar, or harp
continuo to cite one solitary source in support of an obnoxious
fad. At one time, scholars were prominent in the historical
performance movement, but increasingly they have been replaced
by copycats and greedy salesmen.
http://www.newolde.com
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J.S.
Bach. Cantatas for the complete liturgical year, volume XI (of
XX): "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen".
Accent ACC 25311 (1 CD, June
2010). Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande. Siri Thornhill,
soprano; Petra Noskaiová, contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan
van der Crabben, bass. BWV 12, 67, 85.
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Zelenka. Missa Votiva (ZWV 18, 1739).
Carus 83.223 (1 CD, May 2010).
Details. Frieder Bernius,
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Stuttgarter Kammerchor. Joanne Lunn,
soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Johannes Kaleschke, tenor;
Thomas E. Bauer, baritone.
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Vivaldi. Armida al campo d'Egitto.
(RV 699, Venice 1718). Naïve / Opus 111 OP 30492 (3 CDs,
March 2010).
Video about
making the recording. Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Erminia:
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano; Armida: Sara Mingardo; contralto; Adrasto: Romina Basso, mezzo-soprano; Osmira:
Monica Bacelli, mezzo-soprano; Emireno: Marina Comparato,
mezzo-soprano; Tisaferno: Martín Oro, countertenor; Califfo:
Furio Zanasi, baritone. Alessandrini and Frédéric Delaméa
reconstructed Act II, for which the music was lost, with new
recitatives and choruses by Alessandrini. This is one of the
finest Vivaldi opera recordings. Highly recommended!
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Bolivian
Baroque vol. 3 - Music from the Missions and La Plata. Channel Classics CCS SA 28009 (1 CD,
February 2010).
Details.
Ashley Solomon, Florilegium, Arakaender Bolivia Choir.
Includes organ music from the Bolivian archives performed by
James Johnstone on the restored anonymous Blockwerk organ in the
Mission Church of Santa Ana de Velasco, located about 500 km
west of Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
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Monteverdi. L'incoronazione di Poppea
(Naples manuscript 1651). Glossa
GCD 920916 (3 CDs,
April 2010).
Details. Claudio Cavina, La Venexiana. Poppea: Emanuella
Galli, soprano; Nerone: Roberta Mameli, soprano; Ottavia: Xenia Meijer, soprano;
Ottone: Josè Maria Lo Monaco, mezzo-soprano; Arnata: Ian Honeyman, tenor;
Seneca: Raffaele Costantini, bass. Cavina's L'Orfeo may be the finest
recording to date of a Monteverdi opera, but Poppea
suffers from a distant recording in an overly reverberant space.
Garrido's recording of the Naples manuscript, while less
authentic, with a large orchestra and added winds instruments,
is better recorded and consequently more satisfying overall. Box
set with French/English/German texts.
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JP - maybe:
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Handel. Giulio Cesare in Egitto. (HWV
17, London 1724). MDG 609 1604-2 (3 CDs, January 2010).
Details. George Petrou, Orchestra of
Patras. Giulio Cesare: Kristina Hammarström,
mezzo-soprano; Cleopatra: Emanuela Galli, soprano;
Sesto: Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezzo-soprano; Cornelia: Irini
Karagianni, mezzo-soprano; Tolomeo: Romina Basso, mezzo-soprano; Achilla:
Tassis Christoyannis, baritone; Curio: Petros Magoulas, bass; Nireno:
Nikos Spanatis, countertenor.
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Handel. Brockes Passion. (HWV 48,
Hamburg 1719). Carus 83.428 (January, 2010). Peter Neumann, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor. Tochter Zion:
Nele Gramß, soprano; Gläubige
Seele: Johanna Winkel, soprano; Evangelist: Markus Brutscher, tenor; Jesus:
Markus Flaig, bass; Petrus: James Oxley, tenor; Maria: Elvira Bill,
mezzo-soprano; Judas: Jan Thomer, countertenor; Michael Dahmen,
bass. This is easily the best recording to date of Handel's
Brockes Passion. The two sopranos are easy to distinguish, yet
both sing with excellent early music technique.
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J.S.
Bach. Cantatas for the complete liturgical year, volume X (of
XX): "Himmelfahrts-Oratorium".
Accent ACC 25310 (1 CD, April
2010). Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande. Siri Thornhill,
soprano; Petra Noskaiová, contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan
van der Crabben, bass. BWV 11, 44, 86, 108.
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Pietro Antonio Cesti (1623-1669).
Le Disgrazie d'Amore (Vienna 1667). Hyperion CDA 67771/2 (2 CDs,
January 2010).
Details /
Sleeve notes & libretto (pdf). Carlo Ipata, Auser Musici. Allegria:
Cristiana Arcari, soprano; Venere: Maria Grazia Schiavo,
soprano; Amicizia: Elena Cecchi Fedi, soprano; Amore: Paolo
Lopez, sopranist; Adulazione: Gabriella Martellacci, contralto;
Avarizia: Martín Oro, countertenor; Cortigiano: Francisco
Ghelardini, countertenor: Inganno: Carlos Natale, tenor; Amante:
Anicio Zorzi Guistiniani, tenor; Vulcano: Furio Zanasi,
baritone; Bronte: Antonio Abete, bass; Sterope: Enea Sorini,
bass; Piragmo: Luigi De Donato, bass. "[T]his set is not only an
artistic triumph in its own right, but also one of the most
important additions to the catalogue we're likely to see this
year." Brian Robins, EMR 134:25 (February 2010). I
agree. Indeed, this is one of the best recordings to date of a
17th Century Italian opera. I recommend printing out and reading
the interesting libretto before listening. Amazingly, a reader
advises that it was panned by Gramophone, which usually
publishes favorable reviews of anything released by advertisers.
This is such a fine performance of great music that even a
Gramophone twit with a short attention span should have been
able to appreciate brief excerpts, unless he sold his unopened
review copy for a couple of quid.
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Haydn. Die wüste Insel - 1802 German
version of L'isola disabitata. dhm 88697579852 (1 CD, January 2010).
Track list /
Details (pdf). Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester.
Constanze: Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano; Silvia: Barbara Kraus,
soprano; Fernando: Christian Zenker, tenor; Enrico: Reinhard
Mayr, bass. Fine performance and recording. Haydn composed a new
final quartet for the German version.
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J.S. Bach.
Matthäus Passion BWV 244.
Challenge Classics CC 72357 (3 CDs, January 2010).
Details
/ "A
barefooted, vulnerable St Matthew Passion of sky-high
perfection" -- Because of construction in Leuven, recording
had to be done at night. "During the first night a full live
recording was made. And during daytime [producer] Bert [van der
Wolf] did his production work, so that the next three nights he
knew exactly what parts still had to be done. It was a very
intense and unique process." Sigiswald Kuijken, La
Petite Bande. Choir I: Gerlinde Sämann, soprano; Petra Noskaiová,
contralto; Christoph Genz, tenor; Jan van der Crabben, baritone.
Choir II: Marie Kuijken, soprano;
Patrizia Hardt, contralto; Bernhard Hunziger, tenor; Marcus
Niedermeyr, bass. A fine performance and recording that I can
recommend. I haven't heard John Butt's recording and thus have
no basis for comparison.
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J.S. Bach. Markus-Passion.
Carus 83.244 (1 CD, February 2010).
Performance review /
Malcolm Bruno, Towards a Markus-Passion. Choir & Organ,
Nov/Dec 2005 (pdf) /
Review by Johan Van Veen. Michael Willens, Kölner Akademie. Anja
Zügner, soprano; Dorothea Wagner, soprano; Clare Wilkinson,
mezzo-soprano; Silvia Janak, mezzo-soprano; Ensemble Amarcord:
Wolfram Lattke, tenor; Martin Lattke, tenor; Frank Ozimek,
baritone; Daniel Knauft, bass; Holger Krause, bass. Dominique
Horwitz, Speaker. Hellmann reconstruction revised by Andreas
Glöckner (Carus 2001).
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Francesco Feo (1691-1761). Passio secundum Joannem.
Passacaille 964 (1 CD, March 2010).
Details /
Review by Johan Van Veen. Lorenzo Ghielmi, La Divina Armonia.
Ancilla: Peggy Bélanger, soprano; Barbara Schmidt-Gaden,
mezzo-soprano (arias); Evangelista: Doron Schleifer,
countertenor; Pilatus: Mirko Guadagnini, tenor; Jesus: Krystian Adam, tenor;
Petrus: Felice Isola, tenor; Servus: Yashuharu Fukushima, tenor;
Servus: Davide Fior, tenor. This is an outstanding recording and
clearly is the best recording to date of Feo's music. The
ritornello in Track 15 sounds quite similar to the opening of
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
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Jean Gilles. Lamentations / Motet "Diligam te, domine"
(1701).
Ligia Digital Lidi 0202212-0 (1 CD, March 2010). Jean-Marc Andrieu, Orchestre Les Passions, Choeur de chambre Les Éléments (Joël
Suhubiette). Anne Magoüet, soprano; Vincent Lièvre-Picard,
haute-contre; Bruno Boterf, tenor; Alain Buet, baritone,
Volny Hostiou, serpent. As with the fine 2008 recording of
the Gilles Requiem and a different grand motet by the same
forces, the serpent is restored to its rightful place in French
baroque sacred music.
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M-A Charpentier. L'Orgue historique de Nay
(1673). Pierre Verany PV 709101 (1 CD, November 2009).
Details.
Jean-Paul Lécot, organ. Dominique Visse, countertenor. Ouverture
de Médée, Suite de Noëls, Récit et Air d'Orphée descendant aux
enfers, Suite du IIe ton, Air de David et Jonathas, Chaconne du
Rendez-vous des Tuileries, Gloria de la Messe pour les
instruments, Salve Regina des Jésuites, Suite du Ier ton.
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Reinhold Keiser. Passion Music. cpo 999
821-2 (1
CD, April 2010). Thomas Ihlenfeldt, Capella Orlandi Bremen. Eeva
Tenkanen, soprano; Doerthe Maria Sandmann, soprano; Olivia Vermeulen,
mezzo-soprano; Knut Schoch,
tenor; Julian Podger, tenor; Raimonds Spogis, bass; Matthias
Jahrmärker, bass. Motet: "Ich
liege und schlafe ganz mit" (21:03); fragment of the Lukas-Passion "Wir
gingen alle in die Irre" (31:37) & "Seelige
Erlösungs-Gedancken" (26:26).
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Manuscrit de Vaudry de Saizenay (1668-1742). AS Musique
ASM 004 (1 CD,
September 2009).
Details. Claire Antonini,
11-course baroque lute by Paul Thomson. This is a superb
recording, in every respect -- the music, the richly ornamented
performance, the lute, the recording engineering and the room
acoustics. Claire Antonini has chosen 32 pieces, mostly dances,
from the 450 collected and copied by Vaudry de Saizenay. From
the liner note by Claude Chauvel: "His book ... is full of
technical details and interpretative signs such as fingering,
tenues (held notes), ornaments, harpégements (arpeggiated
chords), and separations. In this unique source for many pieces,
he sometimes corrects the text or clarifies the attributions."
From the liner note by Claire Antonini: "This selection not only
reflects my musical affinities but also satisfies two important
criteria: * Fidelity to the manuscript's spirit and to its
organisation of the modes, richness of musical forms, and
multitude of composers - be they renowned lutenists like
Gaultier or de Visée, others represented by only a few pieces,
like Emond or Jacquesson, or simply anonymous musicians. *
Clarity of the musical discourse.... [T]he alteration of dance
suites and individual pieces, enriched by the play of changing
keys, allows the composers to respond one to another, to assert
their personalities and richness of their styles - Gaultier's
boldness and originality, Gallot's melancholy, or de Visée's
nobility, for example."
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Froberger. Suites 1649 & 1656. Naïve Ambroisie AM
148 (1 CD, February
2010). Christophe Rousset, harpsichord (Couchet 1652).
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Lionel
Sawkins. A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard
de Lalande (1657-1726).
Details. 748 pages. Oxford University Press 2006.
Remaindered in March 2010 for $30.48 / £19.99. My periodic scan
for inexpensive remainder copies of this superb book, which has
a US list price of $335, finally was successful. It arrived,
securely packed, by air five days after I ordered it.
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