Feminine Fusion

S5-08: Strung Along, Part 2

by Diane Jones

October 24, 2020

Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba

“What really counts isn’t whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it’s your mindset.”  – Sir Simon Rattle

What would it be to step back in time, just for a moment, to listen to the music of Barbara Strozzi or Leonora Duarte as it was when it was new?  We are fortunate to have musicians and historians today dedicated to presenting that music on the instruments for which it was composed.  We’ll hear some of those performances today.

Strung Along, Part 2

Giuseppe Maria Dall’Abaco:  Capriccio primo
Elinor Frey, baroque cello
“La Voce del Violoncello”
Passacaille 993

C.P.E. Bach:  Sonata per cembalo concertato e violono
Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba
Arnaud de Pasquale, fortepiano
“C.P.E. Bach, Graun & Hesse: Trios for Fortepiano & Viola da Gamba”
Alpha 202

J.S. Bach:  Sonata #1 for Gamba and Harpsichord
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
“J.S. Bach: Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord”
Centaur 2715

Antonio Vivaldi:  Concerto for 2 violins, Op. 3, No. 8
Jeanne Lamon & Genevieve Gilardeau, baroque violins
Tafelmusik
“A Baroque Feast”
Analekta 9811

Antonion Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E Major, “L’Amoroso”
Elisa Citterio, baroque violin/conductor
Tafelmusik
“Vivaldi Con Amore”
Tafelmusik 1039

Leonora Duarte:  Sinfonia No. 6
Sonnambula; Elizabeth Weinfield, director
“Leonora Duarte: The Complete Works”
Centaur 3685

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