Emilio de' Cavalieri - Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo

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1600: Emilio de’ Cavalieri composes a work in the new style he has dubbed ‘recitar cantando’. For the first time an attempt is made to represent man’s feelings through allegory and vocal writing that is attentive to the meaning of words.

Marco Beasley: Corpo, Tempo
Johannette Zomer: Anima
Dominique Visse: Piacere
Jan van Elsacker: Intelletto
Stephan MacLeod: Mondo, Consiglio
Nuria Rial: Angelo Custode
Beatrice Mayo-Felip: Vita Mondana

Celine Vieslet, Elisabeth Dobbin, Laureen Armishaw: Anime Beate
Matthew Baker, Nicolas Achten: Anime Dannate
Harm Huson, Jürgen Banholzer, Stephan van Dyck, Vincent Lesage: Quatro del coro

L'Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar, théorbe & direction

 

 

Dame de Deuil

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Daughter of Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530) experienced a series of personal tragedies during the first three decades of her life - including deaths of her only brother and both husbands.
Despite her misfortunes, Marguerite has skillfully ruled The Netherlands for her nephew, Charles V. She is also remembered for her patronage over the arts. Herself a creative personality with literary and musical talents, she has made her court in Mechelen (now Belgium) a mansion of flamboyant Burgundian culture, shortly before its expiration. There she collected books and works or art, among which were such gems as 'Trés riches heures de duc de Berry' by Limbourg brothers or Van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait'.
Some musical manuscripts now in the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels were probably part of Marguerite's library. These include two songbooks and a handsome collection of courtly bassedanse tenors (foundations for improvised polyphonic dance compositions). All were most likely prepared for Marguerite herself - song collections contain settings of her plaintive texts, and the book of bassedanse tenors reflects her nostalgy for expiring Burgundian glories.

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Anonymous - Triste suis de vostre langheur
Pierre De La Rue - A vous non autre servir, habandoné
Francisco de la Torre - AltaAnonymous - Se je souspire, ecce iterum novus dolor
Pierre De La Rue - Pour ung jamais ung regret me demeure
Pierre De La Rue - Mijn, hert altijt heeft verlanghen
Alexander Agricola - Si dedero
Jacob Obrecht - Si sumpsero
Antoine Brumel - Tous les regretz quelques furent au mondeAnonymous - Fama malumAnonymous - Soubz ce tumbelAnonymous - Me fauldra-il tousjours ainsi languir?
Bassedanse - La verdeletteBassedanse - La danse de cleves
Josquin Des Prez - Plus nulz regretz grans, moyens ne menuz

La Morra

Michael Gondko & Corina Marti

Marin Marais - Pièces à 2 & à 3 violes

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Marin MARAIS: Suite I en Ré (L.IV: à 3 violes)

Marin MARAIS: Tombeau de Monsieur Meliton, sol (L.I)

Jean-Baptiste FORQUERAY "LE FILS": Pièces à 3 violes

Marin MARAIS: Suite VI en Mi (ou Sol) (L.I)

Jérôme HANTAI, Basse de viole

Kaori UEMURA, Basse de viole

Alix VERZIER, Basse de viole

Pierre HANTAI, Clavecin, Direction

Dresden 1652

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Dresden 1652: music by Christoph Bernhard and Christian Herwich (NCA 60147-210, rec 2004, 64') draw on an important recently discovered score-book at Wolfenbüttel. It is dated 1662, includes instrumental ensemble music ranging from solo gamba and violin pieces to seven- and eight-part sonatas, and was copied by Jakob Ludwig (1623–98), a court musician at Wolfenbüttel and Gotha. 

The disc from Hamburger Ratsmusik and Simone Eckert, concentrates on music by two composers who met in Dresden for a court wedding in 1652: the Weimar gamba player Christian Herwich (1609 - 1663) and the Dresden singer Christoph Bernhard (1627 - 1692), a pupil of Schütz.

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01 - Bernhard: Da du wolltest von mir ziehn

02 - Bernhard: Gleich wie ein junger Hirsch

03 - Herwich: Sonata "La Chilana"

04 - Bernhard: Die sterbenden Lilien

05 - Bernhard: Die Lieb ist wie der Tod

06 - Bernhard: Suite in D minor / Allemande + Variatio

07 - Bernhard: Suite in D minor / Courante + Variatio

08 - Bernhard: Suite in D Minor / Sarabande + Double

09 - Bernhard: Süsser Christ

10 - Bernhard: Rex Jesu admirabilis

11 - Herwich: Ruggiero

12 - Bernhart: Leb ich oder leb ich nicht

13 - Bernhard: Gute Nacht! Du eitles Leben

14 - Herwich: Prelude

15 - Herwich: Allemande

16 - Herwich: Courante

17 - Bernhart: Ich bin gewiss

18 - Herwich: Allemande

19 - Herwich: Courante

20 - Bernhart:Herr, der du die Sternenbogen

21 - Bernhard: Ach, wie entgeistert sich mein Geist

22 - Herwich: Derde

23 - Bernhard: Gott ist mein Schild

24 - Bernhard: Mein Jesus! Mein Lust!

25 - Bernhard: Allein nach dir

26 - Herwich: Aria in G

27 - Bernhard: Der Tag ist hin

Klaus Mertens, bass-baritone

Hamburger Ratsmusik

dir. Simone Eckert

Aux marches du palais

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 "... a program designed to show off the skills of a specific performing group, in a genre that remains impossible to define, yet too attractive to resist..." (continue reading review)

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1 - J'ai Vu Le Loup, Le Renard Danser
2 - Le Roi Renaud
3 - La Pernette
4 - L'Amour De Moy
5 - En Passant Par La Lorraine
6 - Une Jeune Fillette
7 - La Fille Au Roi Louis
8 - Le 31 Du Mois D'Août
9 - Aux Marches Du Palais
10 - Réveillez-Vous, Belle Endormie
11 - Le Roi A Fait Battre Tambour
12 - La Molièra Qu'A Nau Escus
13 - La Complainte De Mandrin
14 - Sarremilhòque 


Le Poème Harmonique
dir. Vincent Dumestre

Happy Birthday D!!!

 

Maria Bayo - Handel

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These performances have got nothing if not style--and charisma to burn. And burn is what the first aria does, its fire flaming directly from the mouth of Spanish soprano María Bayo. Is this image too much for you? Well, just listen and you'll be hard-pressed not to come up with a picture of some kind of pyrotechnic activity. Bayo displays some habits I'm not fond of--a sort of "swallowed" quality on some notes, a tendency to push interpretive gestures to the border of the "too-cute" and, in the case of "Lascia ch'io pianga", the overwrought--but forget all of that: this is really magnificent singing accompanied by interpretive instincts that invariably show the true theatrical essence of these wonderful Handel creations. Bayo's orchestral partners are more than able accomplices: these are first rate players who really relish their music and consequently make it live--robustly, vivaciously, and passionately. Bayo sings as if no wild runs or leaping lines are too difficult, and her brief duet passages with various instruments in the cantata Tra le fiamme HWV 170 are impressive bits of virtuosity. The aria "Se pieta" from Giulio Cesare shows how far Bayo will go to inject personality into a piece that otherwise depends only on its considerable melodic loveliness for impact. It's not offensive or tasteless, just, well, characterful, and in this instance it works. Besides the more familiar works, Bayo also treats us to one of Handel's more curious and rarely heard pieces, composed in 1707 during his sojourn in Italy: it's a cantata in Spanish with guitar accompaniment, No se emendará jamás. This is not only a nice programmatic touch, it's a delightful work that, along with the rest of the disc, is well worth hearing. The sound is bright, detailed, and suitably lively for complementing repertoire and singer.

--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

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Giulio Cesare: Da Tempeste (Cleopatra)

Giulio Cesare: V'Adoro, Pupille - Sinfonia & Aria (Cleopatra)

Rinaldo: Lascia Ch'Io Pianga (Almirena)

Cantata, HWV 170. Aria & Recitativo: Tra Le Fiamme...

Cantata, HWV 170. Aria & Recitativo: Pien Di Nuovo...

Cantata, HWV 170. Aria & Recitativo: Voli Per L'Aria...

Giulio Cesare: Che Sento? Oh Dio! (Cleopatra)

Giulio Cesare: Se Pietа (Cleopatra)

Cantata, HWV 140. Aria & Recitativo: No Se Emendarejame

Cantata, HWV 140. Aria: Dicente Mis Ojos...

Alcina: Torna Mi A Vagheggiar (Morgana)

Alcina: Si, Son Quella! (Alcina)

Alcina: Mi Restano Le Lagrime (Alcina)

Maria Bayo, soprano

Capriccio Stravagante

dir. Skip Sempé

Johann Pachelbel - Easter Cantatas

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While the ubiquitous Canon and Gigue in D refuses to suffer in obscurity--or even to stop reproducing and multiplying like a rampant tumor--recordings devoted to Johann Pachelbel's vocal music are extremely rare. It's a shame because Pachelbel's vocal works are often remarkably heartfelt and stirring. J.S. Bach was certainly impressed. Listen for instance to Pachelbel's richly textured, contrapuntal chorale cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lay in the bonds of death) and compare it to Bach's famous later treatment (BWV 4). Bach's harmonic structure and thematic development throughout are remarkably similar to Pachelbel's earlier model. In fact, Pachelbel's subtler, seamless gradations between vocal and instrumental parts arguably heighten the solemn nature of Luther's familiar hymn more effectively than the master. For those who missed Rolf Schweizer's stunning, reverential, and long-deleted performance on Da Camera Magna (with Bachorchester Pforzheim), this leaner, more focused rendering by Roland Wilson with La Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata serves Pachelbel equally well. Like his nearly exact contemporary Heinrich Biber, Pachelbel was regarded in his day as quite the progressive, often extravagantly augmenting his vocal scores with antiphonal choirs and plenty of rousing brass and percussion. Though every work on this program incorporates these elements to some extent, the cantata Halleluja! Lobet den Herrn (Praise the Lord) offers the grandest, most celebratory display. The splendor of this unusually large setting for five trumpets, trombone, timpani, bells, strings, two oboes, harp, dulcian, full concertante and ripieno voices, and basso continuo is further complemented by Pachelbel's frequent use of permutation fugues (two or three contrasting themes played simultaneously in revolving cycles) that Wilson and his forces effortlessly negotiate. The disc's concluding Magnificat in C major, though longer and with slightly less instrumentation, equally impresses.

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Deus in adjutorium
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Halleluja! Lobet den Herrn
Christ ist erstanden
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Magnificat in C major


La Capella Ducale
Musica Fiata
dir. Roland Wilson

The Art of Qin Music

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The qin (pronounced “chin”; also called guqin, or “ancient qin”) has a unique place in Chinese culture; according to our most accurate information, it has been played in China regularly since the time of Confucius. This would mean its performance tradition goes back at least 2500 years. During that period, the instrument has enjoyed almost unrivalled status. Allusions to its poetic beauty, pristine character, connection with heaven, and even magical properties are found throughout Chinese poetry and literature.

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Tong Kin-Woon: Memories of an Old Friend

Tong Kin-Woon: Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter

Ding Cheng-Yun: Meditation in Autumn by the Dongting River

Ding Cheng-Yun: Harmony between Man and God

Xie Dao-Xiu: Fantasy Tune

Xie Dao-Xiu: Innocent Seagulls

Dai Xiao-Lian: Water and Cloud of the Rivers Xiao and Xiang

Liu Zheng-Chun: Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank

Liu Zheng-Chun: Night Mooring at the Qiu River

Zeng Cheng-Wei: Prologue of Peach and Plum Garden

Tse Chun-Yan: Piece in Shang Mode

Ding Ji-Yuan: The Autumn Moon over the Han Palace

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Xie Xiao-Ping: Song of the Peaceful Evening

Chen Chang-Lin: Zhuang Zhou Dreams to be a Butterfly

Xu Xiao-Ying: Mourning for Yan Hui

Zhao Jia-Zhen: Crows Caw at Night

Zhao Jia-Zhen: Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter

Li Yu-Xian: Lament at Changmen Palace

Li Feng-Yun: Five Modes of Xia Wai Shen Pin

Li Feng-Yun: Three Variations of the Plum Blossom

Sou Si-Tai: Water Spirit

Sou Si-Tai: Observing Calmly

Mei Ri-Qiang: Memories of an Old Friend

Mei Ri-Qiang: Liquormania

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Li Xiang-Ting: Mountain Tai

Li Xiang-Ting: Autumnal Lamentations

Sun Yu-Han: Innocent Seagulls

Chen Chang-Lin: Moonlit River in Spring

Li Yu-Xian: The River All Red

Tse Chun-Yan: Falling Plum Blossoms (w/ Sou Si-Tai, xiao)

Wei Jia-Li: The Eighth of the Fourth Lunar Month

Xu Xiao-Ying: Three Variations of the Yang Pass (w/ voice)

Zhang Tong-Xia: Soliciting the Hermits (w/ voice)

Zhang Tong-Xia: Lamenting the Ancients (w/ voice)

Huang Yung-Ming: Incantation of Pureness (w/ voice; Cheng Jung-Lung, xiao; Lee Kung-Yuan, zhonghu; Sun Yu-Han, yinqing; Lin Fa, qing & muyu)

Gao Zhong-Jun: Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter (w/ voice)

J.M.Molter - Concerti & Concertini

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Concerto A-Dur fur Diskant, Streicher & BC
Concertino A 4 D-Dur fur Traverso, Diskant, Streicher & BC
Concerto F-Dur fur Diskant, Streicher & BC
Concertino A 4 E-Moll fur Traverso, Diskant, Streicher & BC
Sonata G-Dur fur Diskant, Violin, Viola & BC
Concero G-Dur fur Diskant, Streicher & BC


Simone Eckert, diskant-viola da gamba
Hamburger RatsMusik

The Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley

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Orazio Vecchi: Selva di varia ricreatione

 
1. Se desio di fuggir
2. So ben mi c'ha bon tempo
3. Mo magari colona
4. Gioite tutti
5. De la mia cruda sorte
6. Tiridola non dormire
7. Diversi linguaggi
8. Je veu le cerf
9. Vieni o Morte
10. Cicirlanda, che comanda (Parte prima)
11. Ecco nuncio di gioia

Madrigali

 
12. Cipriano De Rore: Per mezz'i boschi
13. Luca Marenzio: Cantava la più vaga
14. Giovan Giacomo Gastoldi: A lieta vita
15. Francesco Orso: Il cantar novo

Mathias Hermann Werrecore: La battaglia taliana:

 
16. Parte I
17. Parte II
18. Parte III
19. Marenzio: Strider faceva le zampogne

Soprano: Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb
Contralto: Mary Nichols
Tenore: Andrew King, Rufus Müller, Richard Wistreich

The Consort of Musicke
dir. Anthony Rooley

Pierre Robert - En Grands Motets

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Chosen by Louis XIV in 1663 to conduct the music of his Chapel, Pierre Robert spent the next twenty years, in alternation with Henry Du Mont, composing the works that accompanied the daily services of the court of France. The creator with Du Mont and Lully, of the grands motets the emblematic genre of a 'French style' admired by all Europe, Robert was one of the last heirs to the great French polyphonic tradition which he brought to a high degree of contrapuntal complexity and rhetorical refinement, as can be seen in his 'Motets pour la chapelle du Roy' published in 1684. Olivier Schneebeli is Director of Les Pages and les Chantres de la Chapelle, the choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Prior to joining the Centre in 1991, he and William Christie founded the choir of Les Arts Florissants for the modern debut of Lully's Atys.

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De profundis
Quare fremuerunt gentes
Te decet hymnus Deus
Nisi Dominus


Dagmar Saskova, Damien Guillon
Robert Getchell, Jean-François Novelli
Alain Buet, Arnaud Richard

Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre

de Musique Baroque de Versailles

 
Musica Florea
dir. Olivier Schneebeli

G.F. Handel - Complete Chamber Music (6 CD)

 

 

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Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti pour Hautbois, Basson et Cordes

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Concerto pour hautbois en fa majeur RV 455
Concerto pour basson en la mineur RV 498
Concerto pour hautbois en ré majeur RV 453
Concerto pour hautbois et basson en sol majeur RV 545
Concerto pour basson en ut majeur RV 477
Concerto pour hautbois en la mineur RV 463
Concerto pour basson en fa majeur RV 488

Alfredo Bernardini, oboe
Josep Borras, basson

L'Armonia e l'Inventione
dir. Alfredo Bernardini

Johann Friedrich Fasch - Concerti & Sinfoniae

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Sinfonia B-Dur (FWV M:B2)
Sinfonia g-moll (FWV M:g1)
Concerto für Chalumeau B-Dur (FWV L:B2)
Concerto für Violine und Oboe d-moll (FWV L:d4)
Concerto für Violine A-Dur (FWV L:A2)
Sinfonia a-moll (FWV M:a1)

 

Main-Barockorchester Fankfurt

Christian Leitherer, Chalumeau
Meike Güldenhaupt, Oboe
Martin Jopp, Violine

Il canto delle dame & Caro amor

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Four of the composers are Italian women of the 17th century, a most favorable time for their gender if the notes are to be accepted. Recordings of Francesca Caccini (1587–1640), the daughter of composer Giulio Caccini, go back as far as 1969 with Max van Egmond on Telefunken; the nun Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) was also heard in the LP era ( Fanfare 6: 4), and Barbara Strozzi (1619–after 1674) came next (7:2). Another nun, Caterina Assandra (fl. 1609–18), can be found on several CDs. The notes say nothing about the inclusion of a brief canon by Giovanni Pietro del Buono, who was noted here just recently on a recording. Eight of the dozen works are vocal, an opportunity for Maria Cristina Kiehr to continue the elegant work she has given us, first as an ensemble singer and for more than a decade as a soloist in Baroque music.

“[Kiehr] has achieved in this recital an even greater sensitivity and subtlety of expression than ever before...It is not just the performances that merit an 'IRR Outstanding' rating for this disc. The works selected and the construction of the whole programme testify to Kiehr's and Aymes's exquisite taste and superb artistic judgement.” (Record Review)

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1 - Isabella Leonarda - Ave suavis dilectio
2 - Giovanni del Buono - Canone sopra l'Ave Maris Stella
3 - Francesca Caccini - Chi è costei
4 - Francesca Caccini - Maria, dolce Maria
5 - Caterina Assandra - Duo Seraphim
6 - Caterina Assandra - Canzon a 4 (di Benedetto Rè)
7 - Caterina Assandra - O quam suavis
8 - Caterina Assandra - O salutaris hostia
9 - Isabella Leonarda - Sonata VII a tre
10 - Francesca Caccini - Io mi distruggo
11 - Francesca Caccini - Lasciatemi qui solo
12 - Barbara Strozzi - Hor ch'Apollo

Maria Cristina Kiehr
Concerto Soave
dir. Jean-Marc Aymes

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Ciao, bellissima!


Caro Amor

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In 2009 the music world celebrates the 250th anniversary of Georg Friedich Handel's death.
"Caro Amor" presents on 2 CDs the most beautiful and expressive arias from his most famous operas and oratorios, performed by the best in their field: Ian Bostridge ("Ombra mai fu", "Where'er you walk"), Maria Bayo ("Lascia ch'io pianga"), Vesselina Kasarova ("Caro Amor"), Nuria Rial and Lawrence Zazzo ("Alma mia, dolce ristoro", "Caro amico amplesso"), Angelika Kirchschlager ("Qui d'Amor," "Scherza Infida","Cara Spem"), Marijana Mijanovic ("Qual nave smarrita"), Annette Dasch ("Ah Crudele") and instrumental gems, played by Gabor Boldoczki ("Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"), Il Complesso Barocco, Capriccio Stravagante, Kammerorchester Basel, etc. The double CD will be released as a high quality 2 CD digipak with a very attractive cover and is the right product for the many fans of beautiful Baroque music.

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CD 1

1. Ariodante: Qui D'Amor (Kirchschlager)
2. Alcina: Mi Lusinga Il Dolce Affetto (Kasarova)
3. Arminio: Menuetto
4. Poro: Caro Amico Amplesso (Rial, Zazzo)
5. Rinaldo: Lascia Ch'Io Pianga Akmirena (Bayo)
6. Admeto: Alma Mia, Dolce Ristoro (Rial, Zazzo)
7. Serse: Imbra Mai Fu (Bostridge)
8. Rodelinda: Ritorna, O'Caro E Dolce Mio Tesoro (Rial)
9. Il Pastore Fido: Caro Amor, Sol Per Momenti (Kasarova)
10. Ariodante: Scherza Infida (Kirchschlager)
11. Salomon: Die Ankunft Der Königin Von Saba (Boldoczki, Gadzala, Raczynska, Slowik)
12. Alcina: Torna Mi A Vagheggiar (Bayo)
13. Semele: Where'er You Walk (Bostridge)
14. Radamisto: Passepied - Rigaudon - Passepied
15. Radamisto: Qual Nave Smarrita (Mijanovic)
16. Giulio Cesare: Cara Speme (Kirchschlager)


CD 2

1. Armida Abbandonata- Ah! Crudele, E Pur Ten' Vai (Dasch)
2. Riccardo Primo- Ouverture
3. Riccardo Primo- Se Perì, L'Amato Bene (Rial)
4. Riccardo Primo- V'Adoro, O Luci Belle (Mead)
5. Riccardo Primo- Cessata E' La Procella (Zazzo)
6. Messiah- Why Do The Nations (Terfel)
7. Riccardo Primo- Agitato Da Fiere Tempeste (Zazzo)
8. Concerto G Moll Nr. 3 - Grave
9. Riccardo Primo- Caro, Vieni A Me (Zazzo)
10. Riccardo Primo- Ai Guardi Tuoi (McGreevy)
11. Concerto Es-Dur Op. 4 - Presto
12. Floridante- Se Dolce M'Era Già (Stutzmann)
13. Gigue (Giulio Cesare)
14. Orlando- Già L'Ebro Mio Ciglio (Mijanovic)
15. Rinaldo- Ah, Crudele Il Pianto Mio (Dasch)