Vivaldi – Cello Concertos – Queyras

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1714):
Sinfonia in C major RV 709
Concerto in G minor RV 416
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736):
Sinfonia No. 12 in A minor "La Passione di Gesu"
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1714):
Cello Concerto in F major RV 412
Concerto in C major RV 114
Cello Concerto in E minor RV 409
Concerto No. 11 in D minor RV 565
Cello Concerto in B minor RV 424
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736):
Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor "San Elena al Calvario"
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1714):
Cello Concerto in A minor RV 419

Jean-Guihen Queyras - cello
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [on period instruments]
Georg Kallweit - conductor

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Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Bononcini – Stabat Mater & other works for choir and orchestra – VA

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736):
Stabat Mater
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757):
Stabat Mater
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725):
O magnum mysterium
Domine, refugium factus es nobis
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736):
Magnificat in C major
Antonio Lotti (c.1667-1740):
Crucifixus
Antonio Bononcini (1677-1726):
Stabat Mater
Antonio Caldara (c.1670-1736):
Crucifixus

Felicity Palmer - soprano
Elizabeth Vaughan - soprano
Janet Baker - contralto
Alfreda Hodgson - contralto
Philip Langridge - tenor
Ian Partridge - tenor
Paul Esswood - counter tenor
Christopher Keyte - bass
Choir of St John's College
Schütz Choir of London
The Choir of King's College
The Argo Chamber Orchestra
Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields
Philomusica of London
George Guest - conductor
Roger Norrington - conductor
David Willcocks - conductor

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The Art of the Baroque Trumpet (Vol.3) – Handel, Scarlatti, Predieri, Caldara, Stradella

The Art of the Baroque Trumpet (Vol.3)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Eternal source of light divine
Let the bright Seraphim
Lascia ch'io pianga
Antonio Caldara (c.1670-1736):
La vittoria segue
Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741):
Chi nel Camin d'onore
Luca Antonio Predieri (1688-1767):
Pace una volta
Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682):
Sinfonia avanti "Il Barcheggio"
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725):
Arie con tromba sola
Su le sponde del Tebro

Niklas Eklund - baroque trumpet
Susanne Rydén - soprano
London Baroque [on period instruments]
Edward H. Tarr - conductor

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Various Composers - Musici da Camera from Eighteenth-Century Prague – VA

Musici da Camera from the Eighteen-Century Prague

CD 1:
Antonín Reichenauer (c.1694-1730):
Quartet in G minor, for Violin, Cello, Bassoon and B.C.
Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758):
Quartet in D major for Flute, Violin, Bassoon and B.C.
František Jiránek (1698-1778):
Trio Sonata in B flat major for Two Violins and B.C.
Christian Gottlieb Postel (c.1697-1730):
Trio Sonata in A major for Two Violins and B.C.
Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758):
Concerto in C major for Flute, Violin, Bassoon and B.C.
Johann Georg Orschler (1698-1767/70):
Trio in F minor for Two Violins and B.C.

CD 2:
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741):
Trio in G minor for Violin, Luthe and B.C.
Antonín Reichenauer (c.1694-1730):
Trio Sonata in B major for Violn, Cello and B.C.
František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774):
Partita in C major for Flute and B.C.
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736):
Sonata in A major for Violin and B.C.
Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758):
Concerto in D major for Two Flutes, Strings and B.C.

Sergio Azzolini - bassoon
Lenka Torgersen - violin
Helena Zemanová - violin
Jana Semerádová - flute & direction
Collegium Marianum [on period instruments]

[other volumes of the 'Music from Eightenn-Century Prague set]

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Rorate Coeli - Music for Advent and Christmas in Baroque Prague - Semeredová

"(...) At the time of Baroque, more present than today was the accent on Kenosis and Christ's mother, stemming from the ancient Roman tradition (at the time the entire Advent has a markedly Marian nature). In the Czech lands there was the tradition of Advent matin songs accompanying morning votive masses in honour of the Virgin Mary, and often sung in the national language. The introductory verse of the Introit of this mass reads "rorate coeli desuper" - "drop down dew, ye heavens from above". That is also the title of this recording in whose first part compositions focused on the Virgin Mary prevail. The perceptive listener will certainly not fail to hear the arrival of Christmas in the programme.(...)"
[Václav Kapsa in the booklet]

works by:
Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644-1718) 
Antonín Reichenauer (ca. 1694-1730) 
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) 
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) 
Antonio Caldara (c. 1670-1736) 

Collegium Marianum [on period instruments]
Jana Semerádová - direction 

[other volumes of the 'Music from Eightenn-Century Prague set]

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