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April 3, 2012

L'Arpeggiata Part Two

It's music from the early 1600s played with a contemporary feel. The members of the early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata like to sound old and new at the same time. On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll hear the rest of their unique concert two weeks ago at Carnegie Hall in New York with music for Holy Week combining early Italian motets and Corsican folk songs with improvisation influenced by everything in between.

Today's Playlist

Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.

hour 1

  • Franz Joseph Haydn
    Finale from String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, Hob. III:75 (excerpt)
    Amadeus Quartet
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    La Fille du Regiment: Pour mon ame
    Juan Diego Florez, tenor; Vincenzo Scalera, piano
    Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
  • Giacomo Puccini
    Chrysanthemums (Crisantemi)
    The Euclid Quartet: Jameson Cooper, violin, Jacob Murphy, violin, Luis Vargas, viola, Si-Yan Darren Li, cello
    Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
  • Antonio Lotti
    Crucifixus, a 8
    Sydney Chamber Choir; Paul Stanhope, director
    Verbrugghen Hall, Conservatorium, Sydney, Australia
  • Guillaume Dufay
    Ad coenam Agni providi ("To prudent supper of the Lamb")
    Brabant Ensemble; Stephen Rice, conductor
    Pieterskerk; Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Joseph Haydn
    Symphony No. 49 F minor ('La Passione')
    Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, director
    Raoul Jobin Hall, Palais Montcalm, Quebec
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Largo from Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in f minor, BWV 1056
    Maria Joao Pires, piano; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
    Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

hour 2

  • Jean Sibelius
    Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1
    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
  • Francois Couperin
    Gavotte from Air & Gavotte
    Trio Settecento: Rachel Barton Pine, baroque violin, John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba, David Schrader, harpsichord; Sheldon Friends of Chamber Music
    Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
    Passacaglia in G Minor from Rosary Sonatas
    Benjamin Schmid, violin
    Teatro Monumental, Madrid, Spain
  • Traditional: Suda sangue; Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Arpeggiata; Traditional: Santu Giesu; Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi; Mealli: La Vinciolina; Giovanni Felice Sances: Sabat Mater; Roccu Mambrini, Toni Casalonga, Nando Acquaviva: Lamento di ghjesu; Maurizio Cazzati: Ciaccona
    L'Arpeggiata and Ensemble Barbara Furtuna; Lucilla Galeazzi, vocalist; Raquel Andueza, soprano
    Carnegie Hall: Zankel Hall, New York City, New York
  • Jean Sibelius
    Movement II from Rakastava Suite, Op. 14 "The Lover"
    Irish Chamber Orchestra; Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
    Royal Dublin Society Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
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