[ Erato Veritas / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 January 2017
Pergolesi's celebrated setting of the Stabat Mater is joined here by the Stabat Mater (and other choral works) composed by the Venetian Antonio Caldara (1670-1736). They are complemented by instrumental music by Vivaldi (Caldara's contemporary in Venice) and František Tůma (1704-1774), Czech-born, but mainly active in Vienna.
The Westfälische Kantorei is a mixed choir from Herford in north-west Germany and is best known for its performances of a cappella sacred works. The choir was founded in 1948 and soon achieved an international reputation. Capella Agostino Steffani is a period-instrument ensemble founded in Hannover in 1981 by the Hungarian keyboard player Lajos Rovátkay. Since 1996 it has been known as the Hannoversche Hofkapelle
Monteverdi:
Tirsi e Clori, ballo concertato (Book 7)
L'Orfeo: excerpts
De la bellezza le dovute lodi
Il Ballo delle ingrate
Volgendo il ciel (Ballo 'Movete')
Purcell:
Sonata for trumpet and strings
The Married Beau: Overture
Come, ye sons of art away: Sound the trumpet
Come, ye sons of art away
Saul and the Witch of Endor: In guilty night
The Indian Queen: Adagio
King Arthur: Fairest isle
Close thine eyes and sleep secure
Dido and Aeneas: Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth
Music for the funeral of Queen Mary (excerpts)
Abdelazer: Rondeau
King Arthur: Come if you dare / Frost Scene