An educational programme featuring early music.
The travel journals of Charles Burney (1726-1814).
Part 6: Today we follow Burney to Florence, Rome and Naples. In Florence he hears music by Orazio Benevoli and Antonio Saccini, and in Rome he hears the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.
Orazio Benevoli (1605-1672)
1. From ‘Missa Tira Corda’:
– Kyrie
– Gloria
Tölzer Knabenchor led by Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
(CD Römische Mehrchörigkeit. Roman Polyphony Spektral SRL4-11089)
Antonio Saccini (1730-1786)
2. From ‘La Contadina in Corte’: “Piano piano mio Signore”
Giorgio Gatti, baritone. Orchestra Sinfonica di Sassari led by Bruno Landi
(CD Antonio Saccini La Contadina in Corte. Bongiovanni GB 2145/4)
Antonio Saccini (1730-1786)
3. From ‘Sei Quartetti opus 2’, Quartetto no. 4 in E-flat major
– Maestoso
– Andantino ma non presto
Quartetto Stauffer
(CD Antonio Saccini: Sei Quartetti opus 2. Arkadia CDAK 141.1)
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
4. Miserere mei, Deus
Caroline Ashton and Karen Kerslake, soprano. Patrick Craig, alto, Charles Pott, bass. The Cambridge Singers led by John Rutter
(CD A Banquet of Voices. Collegium Records COLCD 123)
Traditional Neapolitan music
5. Tarantella la Carpinese
6. Tarantella di Gargano
Marco Beasley, tenor. L’Arpeggiata led by Christina Pluhar
(CD La Tarantella L’Arpeggiata, Outhere Alpha 818)
Featured image: Orazio Benevoli
