Program: #11-35 Air Date: Aug 22, 2011
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The remarkable French label gives us three recent recordings looking at women composers in the early Italian Baroque, Venice in 1677, and a reconstruction of Vivaldi's Vespers for St. Mark.
NOTE: The recordings on this program come from the French label Ambronay, part of the Bureau Export association. For more information, you may explore:
www.french-music.org
I. Il Canto della Dame (Maria Cristina Kiehr, s./Concerto Soave/Jean-Marc Aymes, dir.). Ambronay CD AMY025.
--ISABELLA LEONARDA (1620-1704): Ave suavis dilectio (Motetti, Op. 6; Venice, 1676) ("Hail, sweet love, hail replete charity").
--FRANCESCA CACCINI (1587-1640): Maria, dolce Maria (Il Primo Libro della Musiche, Florence, 1618) ("Mary, gentle Mary, name so sweet").
--CATERINA ASSANDRA (flourished 1609-1618): O quam suavis ("O how gentle, Lord, is Thy spirit"); O Salutaris hostia ("O saving Victim").
II. Rosenmüller, Legrenzi, Stradella: Venezia (The Rare Fruits Council/Manfredo Kraemer, cond.). Ambronay CD AMY028.
--GIOVANNI LEGRENZI (1626-1690): Sonata terza à 3
--ALESSANDRO STRADELLA: (1644-1682): Sinfonia XVIII
--JOHAN ROSENMÜLLER (c.1619-1684): Sonata settima
III. VIVALDI--VESPRO a SAN MARCO (soloists/Choeur de Chambre de namur/Les Agrémens/Leonardo García Alarcón, cond.). Ambronay CD AMY029.
--Deus in adjutorium ("O God, make speed to save me).
--Dixit Dominus (Ps. 109), RV 807 ("The Lord said unto my Lord, sit Thou at My right hand").
Composer Info
ISABELLA LEONARDA (1620-1704), FRANCESCA CACCINI (1587-1640), CATERINA ASSANDRA (flourished 1609-1618),GIOVANNI LEGRENZI (1626-1690), ALESSANDRO STRADELLA: (1644-1682), JOHAN ROSENMÜLLER (c.1619-1684)
CD Info
CD AMY028, CD AMY025, CD AMY029