February 2022

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Part 6: Into the 17th Century and Back to Bach

We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, to early 17th century Italian cantatas, and then to some lesser-recorded Bach keyboard works.

Composer: Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Salvatore, Giacomo Carissimi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Legrenzi, George Frideric Haendel, Antonio Vivaldi

CD Info: Naive/Opus 111 CD OP 30395, Naive CD OP 30439, Naive CD 30581, BAch

Gallicantus Part 2

Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, continues to guide us through some of their releases. This week, Dialogues of Sorrow and The Tears of St. Peter.

Composer: Robert RAMSEY (?-1644), Thomas FORD (?-1648), William CRANFORD (?-c.1645?), John WARD (c.1589-before 1639), John COPRARIO (c.1570/80-1626), Thomas WEELKES (1576-1623), Richard DERING (c.1580-1630), Thomas VAUTOR (fl. 1600-1620), Thomas TOMKINS (1572-1656), Orlande de Lassus,

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD210, Signum CD SIGCD 339,

Three More Musical Voyages

Medieval music from the Mediterranean for the Virgin of the Dawn, Yaniv d’Or’s look at the Sephardic and Sufi traditions, and the latest semi-jazz experiment from Trio Medieval.

Composer: Alfonso X, Yaniv d'Or, Jean-Baptiste Besard, Salamone Rossi, Moshe Ibn Ezra, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Shem Tov Levy, Israel Najara, Manuel de Falla

CD Info: Harmonia Mundi CD HMA 1987018, Naxos CD 8.573980, 2L CD 2L-165

Jacob Regnart

The ensemble Cinquecento was formed with a speciality: composers working in the Hapsburg courts of the sixteenth century. Their latest gives us another of the fine northern French composer who worked in Prague, Vienna, and Innsbruck.

Composer: Jacob Regnart (c.1540-1599)

CD Info: Hyperion CDA68369.