Festa Italiana
April 21st, 2012
Air Date: Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 9 AM and 4 PM
Carlo Gesualdo: Ahi, disperata vita & Arde il mio cor. Performed by Les Arts Florissants. HMC 901268.
Antonio Bertali: Festive Sonatas, performed by Musica Fiata.
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata & Bergamasca. Performed by Rinaldo Alessandrini at the 1554 Ategnati Organ located at S. Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan. Astree 8714-15.
Claudio Monteverdi: Damigella tutta bella, performed by soprano Maria-Cristina Kiehr and bass-baritone Stephan MacLeod, with Concerto Soave. HMC 901855. Zefiro Torna, performed by The King’s Consort.
Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa. Performed by Concerto Italiano, with soprano Rossana Bertini. Opus 111- 30-187.
Claudio Monteverdi: Hor che l’ ciel. Performed by Concerto Italiano. Opus 111- 30-187.
Claudio Monteverdi: Oblivion soave from “L’Incoronazione di Poppea”. Performed by Stephanie Prewitt and members of Texas Early Music Project. (Live recording from 2008.)
Claudio Monteverdi: Beatus Vir from “Selva Morale e Spirituale”. Performed by Cantus Colln.
For more information about Texas Early Music Project’s season finale “TEMP goes the full Monteverdi” please click here.