October 2023

Adriano! Part 1

The recently-formed Ghent-based ensemble Dionysos Now! has taken on another in one of those remarkable projects: the complete sacred music of Adrian Willaert. Volume 1 gives is the Missa “Mittit ad Virginem."

Composer: Adrian Willaert

CD Info: Evil Penguin label EPRC 0041

Andrew Parrott, Part 3

There are few major figures in the field we have not had as a guest in our program’s history; one of these is the great Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort. This week, music of Grandi, Lotti, Purcell, and Bach.

Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi, Dario Castello, Giovanni Legrenzi, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Vivaldi, HENRY PURCELL (1659–1695), Nahum Tate (1652–1715), JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750),

CD Info: EMI CD CDC 7 54117-2, Sony CD SK 62993, Avie CD AV2271

Mogens Pedersøn

Another of the great pupils of Gabrieli (and indeed may have spent time with Heinrich Schutz when they were in Venice), Pederson gets a new airing of his rarely-recorded sacred works by the ensemble Weser-Renaissance.

Composer: Mogens Pedersøn

CD Info: CPO CD 555 216-2

Music Before 1800

While we have heard many performances from this great concert series in the past, this time we hear from the founder herself, Louise Basbas, as she guides us through some of her favorite programs over the many decades.

Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger, Orlande de Lassus, Santiago de Compestela, Walter Frye, Johann Sebastian Bach, Guillaume Du Fay, Maurizio Cazzati, Marco dall’Aquila, Giovanni Battista Fontana.

CD Info:

Le Chansonnier de Bayeux

This time Brigitte Lesne is back with her Alla francesca ensemble in a program of songs from a manuscript saved in 1821 before it was to have been torn apart “as a worthless bundle of parchment.”

Composer:

CD Info: CD 221290