This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Two new CDs: Händel and his English Contemporaries by Robert Woolley and Now and Then by Sirena Recorder Quartet.
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
1. Fuga in g minor, HWV 605
2. Fuga in B-flat major, HWV 607
3. Fuga in a minor, HWV 609
William Walond (ca. 1725-1770)
4. Voluntary X in a minor: Andante – Allegro
William Boyce (1711-1779)
5. Voluntary V in D major: Andante – Trumpet
Thomas Roseingrave (1688-1766)
6. Voluntary in g minor
Robert Woolley, Thomas Parker-organ from 1766 (St Mary and St Nicolas, Leatherhead)
(CD Händel and his English Contemporaries, Regent REGCD 382)
Anonymous (14th century)
7. From Robertsbridge codex: Petrone
Tarquino Merula (1594-1665)
From Canzoni a quattro voci, libro primo (1615)
8. Canzon seconda ‘La Lusignuola’
9. Canzon quarta ‘La Merula’
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
10. Concerto for 5 traverso’s (flutes)
in D major, opus 15 no. 3
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1684)
11. Fantasia super ‘lo son ferito ai lasso’ (from: Tabulatura nova, Hamburg 1624)
Sirena Recorder Quartet
(CD Now and Then, BIS 2115 SACD)