This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Newly released albums with instrumental music of Alessandro Scarlatti by Capella Tiberina and opera arias of Georg Friedrich Händel by The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket.
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
1. Sinfonia no. 2 in D ‘Concertata con li ripieni’, for recorder, trumpet, strings and basso continuo:
– Spirituoso
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Presto
2. Sinfonia no. 12 in C minor ‘La Geniale’, for recorder, stirngs and basso continuo:
– Adagio e staccato
– Andante giusto
– Adagio
– Andante moderato
Capella Tiberina with Corina Marti, recorder, Ann Allen, oboe/recorder II. Giuseppe Frau, trumpet
(CD Alessandro Scarlatti 12 Sinfonie di Concerto Grosso, Brilliant Classics 94658, 2016)
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
From the opera Alcina, HWV34 (1735):
3. Mi lusinga il dolce affetto (act 2 scene 3)
4. Verdi prati (act 2 scene 12)
5. Sta nell ‘Irana (act 3 scene 3)
From the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV17 (1724):
6. Cara speme, questo core (act 1 Scene 8)
The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket with Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
(CD Handel Arias – The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket, Hyperion CDA 67979, 2016)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
7. Sinfonia no. in F Major, for 2 reorders, strings and basso continuo:
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro
8. Sinfonia no. 4 in E minor, for recorder,oboe, strings and basso continuo:
– Vivace
– Adagio Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro
Capella Tiberina with Corina Marti, recorder. Ann Allen, oboe/recorder II. Giuseppe Frau, trumpet
(CD Alessandro Scarlatti 12 Sinfonie di Concerto Grosso, Brilliant Classics 94658)
