An educational programme featuring early music. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who recently passed away, was not only a conductor but also a cello and viol player. In this episode a number of old recordings featuring him as an instrumentalist.
Medieval songs from France:
Anonymous (c.1300)
1. In seculum d’Amiens longum
2. El mois de mai
Vaillant (c.1400)
3. Par maintes foys
Matheus de Perusio (c.1400)
4. Andray soulet
Anoniem (c.1400)
5. Or sus vous dormez trop
Solage (c.1400)
6. Helas je voy
Grimage (c.1400)
7. Alarme, Alarme
Mary Thomas, soprano. Alfred Deller, countertenor. Robert Tear, tenor. The Deller Consort and Concentus Musicus Wien: Alice Harnoncourt, pardessus de viole. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, tenor vielle. Hermann Hobarth, bass vielle. Jürg Schaeftlein, recorder. Kurt Theiner, organ. Hans Pöttler, trombone. Ernst Knava, percussion. Leopold Stasny, recorder and percussion
(Vanguard Classics 08 5058 71, 1965/1996)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
From Piéces de Clavecin en concert:
8. Premier Concert
– La Coulicam – Rondement
– La Livri – Rondeau Gracieux
– Le Vezinet – Gaiment
9. Troisième Concert
– La Poplinière – Rondement
– La Timide – Rondeaux I & II
– Tambourins I & II and Rondeau
10 Quatrième Concert
– La Pantomime – Loure vive
– L’Indiscrète – Rondea (vivement)
– La Rameau – Rondement
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, viola da gamba. Lars Fryden, violin
(Vanguard Classics ATM-CD-1653, 1973/2006)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
11. Konzert für Violine g flat minor (after harpsichord concerto BWV 1056):
– (Allegro)
– Largo
– Presto
Alice Harnoncourt, violin. Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cello (?)
(Teldec 8.44014 ZS, 1977/1988)
