Your Sunday repose with special early music delights. With a motet by Bach, consort music by Farina, 15th-century music from the Handschrift Koning (King’s Handwriting), Irish-English music and a symphony by Rigel.
1. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
– Motet ‘O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht’, BWV 118/231.
The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Solists led by John Eliot Gardiner.
(Archiv 4801440, 2000)
2. Carlo Farina (ca.1600-1639).
– Gagliarda 8, Libro IV.
– Pavana 3, Libro V.
– Aria Francesa, Libro I.
Il Concerto delle Viole.
(Olive Music, OM 009, 2007)
3. Alexander Agricola (1446-1506).
– Mijns herten troest.
From the Handschrift Koning (King’s Handwriting) (ca.1500).
– Costi regis filia.
Aventure, ensemble for medieval music led by Ita Hijmans.
(Fineline Classical FL 72411, 2007)
4. Anonymous, from ‘Fitzwilliam Virginals Book’ (ca.1610).
– The Irish Ho-Hoane.
Robert Johnson, uit ‘Gypsies Metamorphosed’ (1621).
– The Gypsies Song.
From ‘Robert Edwards’ Commonplace Book’ (ca.1650).
– Lady Louthians Lilt.
The Harp Consort led by Andrew Lawrence-King.
(DHM 05472 77516 2, 1999)
5. Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741-1799).
Symphony No. 14 (Opus 21 Nr. 6) in F-Dur.
– I. Allegro assai.
– II. Andante moderato.
– III. Allegro.
Concerto Köln.
(Berlin Classics, 0016432BC, 2008)
Bruiloft in Cana (detail), Veronese
