Goodbyes: are they the end or a new start? A collection of compositions regarding this question, held by Machauts ‘Ma fin est mon commencement’.
1. Guillaume de Machaut.
– Ma fin est mon commencement.
Orlando Consort.
2. Lodovico da Viadana.
– Officium defunctorum ad matutinum: Invitatorium; In primo nocturno.
Cappella Musicale di Viadana Vocale Consortium led by Giovannin Battista Columbro.
3. Matteo da Perugia.
– Hélas Avril.
Jill Feldman, soprano. Mala Punica led by Pedro Memelsdorff.
Heinrich Scheidemann.
– Omnia quae fecisti.
Pieter Dirksen, harpsichord.
4. Johann Sebastian Bach.
– Lass Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl, BWV.198.
Katharine Fuge, sopraano. Carlos Mena, countertenor. Jan Kobow, tenor. Stephan MacLeod, bass. Francis Jacob, organ. Ricercar Consort led by Philippe Pierlot.
5. Alessandro Della Ciaia.
– Lamentatio virginis in dispositione filii de cruce.
Cappella Figuralis. De Nederlandse Bach Vereniging led by Jos van Veldhoven.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
– Vor deinen Thron tret ich/Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 668.
Jacques van Oortmerssen, organ.
6. Guillaume de Machaut.
– Ma fin est mon commencement.
Orlando Consort.
