Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CD’s. This time, Koudstaal will play the new releases by Beauty Farm, Seicento Stravagante, ensemble Marguerite Louise conducted by Gaétan Jarry and The Scale Knitters.
1. Alexander Agricola (c. 1456-1506) – from the four-part mass ‘In myne zyn’: Agnus Dei
Beauty Farm
(CD: ‘Agricola Masses’, Fra Bernardo fb 2468128, 2025)
2. Dario Castello (1602-1631) – Sonata quarta
Seicento Stravagante
(sa-cd: ‘Violino òver cornetto’, BIS 2726, 2025)
3. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) – Motet pour une longue offrande, H.434
Louise Champion & Nicolas de la Fortelle, soprano. David Tricou, contratenor.
Romain Champion, tenor. Nicolas Brooymans, bass. Orchestre Marguerite Louise, Choeur Marguerite Louise and Maîtrise Marguerite Louise conducted by Gaétan Jarry
(CD: ‘Missa assumpta est Maria’, Château de Versailles CVS150, 2025)
4. Marin Marais (1656-1728) – Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris
The Scale Knitters
(CD: ‘Marin Marais – Sonnerie – La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie’, Ricercar RIC471, 2025)
