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.
Episode Playlist
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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