This hour features new, special CDs with early music. Today, two CDs: ‘Soleil Noir – Francesco Rasi’ of I Gemelli, and ‘Chaconne for the Princess’ of Jana Semerádová and Erich Traxler.
Francesco Rasi (1574-1621)
1. Indarno febo (il pianto d’Orfeo)
2. Filli mia, Filli dolce
3. O che felice giorno
Giuseppe del Biado (? – 1616)
4. Fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo
Marco da Gagliano (1582-1643)
5. Lamento d’Apollo
Francesco Rasi (1574-1621)
6. Ardo, ma non ardisco
7. Messagier di speranza
8. O pura, o chiara stella
Andrea Falconieri (1585/6- 1656)
9. La suava melodia (instrumental)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
10. Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
I Gemelli met Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor. Louise Pierrard, viola da gamba. Thomas Dunford, theorbo. Flora Papadopoulos, harp
(CD Soleil Noir – Francesco Rasi/I Gemelli. Naive V 5473)
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
11. Gavotte ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’ (arrangement: Michel Blavett (1700-1768)
12. From Suites for Harpsichord (1720), from Suite in G minor: Passagaclia
13. From a collection of pieces for harpsichord, Parnasso in festa: Chaconne in A major
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
14. From: Quatrième livre de sonates, opus 9 No.2: Sonata in E minor (1743)
– Andante (dolce)
– Allemande. Allegro ma non troppo
– Sarabanda. Adagio
– Minuetto. Allegro non troppo
Jana Semerádová, transverse flute. Erich Traxler, harpsichord
(CD Chaconne for the Princess. Supraphon SU4277-2)