Music for voice and cornett: EML 5 March

[doversoul1]

Simon Heighes introduces Italian Baroque music from the RheinVokal Festival, Germany, focusing on music written for the voice and cornett in a programme devised by cornett player Bruce Dickey.

Maurizio Cazzati (~1620-1677), Nicolo Corradini (?-1646), Biagio Marini (~1594-1663), Sigismondo d'India (1580-1629), Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Tarquinio Merula (~1595-1665), Giovanni B. Bassani (1657-1716)

Suzie LeBlanc (soprano)
Bruce Dickey (cornett)
Veronika Skuplik (violin)
Catherine Aglibut (violin)
Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)
Jakob Lindberg (theorbo)
Kris Verhelst (organ).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0ccg

Again, this looks very good.

[doversoul1]

The soprano was slightly over-dramatic to my taste (someone like Núria Rial would have been nice) but to hear these composers’ music was very good indeed.