Bach: Flute Sonata in C major, BWV 1033 [Michala Petri, Lars Hannibal]
Michala Petri (recorder) and Lars Hannibal (lute) play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Flute Sonata in C major for flute (recorder) and basso continuo (BWV 1033).
Category Baroque Period
Handel, Vivaldi and Monteverdi: Arias and concertos with Magdalena Kožená, Anna Fusek, and Andrea Marcon
Conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Czech early music orchestra and choir Collegium 1704 performs arias and concertos from the Baroque period composers George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. Soloists (guest musicians): Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano; Anna Fusek, flautino.
Charpentier: Messe et motets pour la Vierge [Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall]
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Conducted by Jordi Savall, the early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI, and the orchestra with period instruments Le Concert des Nations perform Messe et motets pour la Vierge (mass and motets for the Virgin) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Recorded at the Le…
Telemann: Quatuor Parisien No. 12 (Chaconne) [Il Giardino Armonico]
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (English: The Harmonious Garden) performs Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris Quartets (Quatuor Parisien) No. 12 (Chaconne).
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 [Voices of Music]
San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048, on original instruments. Recorded at St. Stephen’s Church, Belvedere, California.
Nathalie Stutzmann Recording Bach aria “Erbarme Dich” from Matthäus-Passion
French classical and opera singer (contralto) and conductor Nathalie Stutzmann records “Erbarme Dich” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244) at Metz Arsenal. Orfeo 55, the chamber orchestra founded by Stutzmann herself accompanies her during the recording.…
Folia, Variations by Corelli, Scarlatti and Marais [Ensemble Musica Narrans]
Early music ensemble Musica Narrans performs Folia variations by the baroque period composers Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Marin Marais.
Santiago de Murcia: Tarantella [Rolf Lislevand]
Norwegian concert guitarist and early music specialist Rolf Lislevand plays Tarantella by the Spanish guitarist and composer Santiago de Murcia (25 July 1673 – 25 April 1739). Lislevand is playing the Sabionari guitar here, one of the five surviving guitars…
Bach: Concerto in C minor, BWV 1062 [Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili]
Georgian classical pianist sisters Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in C minor, BWV 1062. It is originally scored for two harpsichords, two violins, a viola, and a continuo (cello, violone). Harpsichord parts have been played with…
Tarquinio Merula’s Ciaccona: Three beautiful versions
Voices of Music, Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonious Garden) and L’Arpeggiata versions of Tarquinio Merula’s Ciaccona, Op.12 No.20 (first published in 1637).
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater [Puértolas, Genaux]
Accompanied by the French musical ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, Spanish soprano Sabina Puértolas and American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux perform Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. It was composed in 1736, in the final weeks of Pergolesi’s short life (4 January 1710…
Bach: Sonata No. 4 For Violin And Harpsichord [Menuhin, Gould]
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Widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, American-born violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin and the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century, perform Johann…