Via Crucis is the latest recording from Christina Pluhar and her outstanding early music ensemble, L’Arpeggiata. It was released in the US on April 20th. I’ve had my copy on pre-order since December, and it just arrived! As expected it is another hauntingly gorgeous, imaginative and creative recording from L’Arpeggiata – one of today’s very best early music ensembles. This time their focus is 17th century Italy. Can’t wait to share this with you today!
Via Crucis
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Playlist:
8:11 am
- Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise
- Composer: Ferde Grofe
- Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
- Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
- CD/Album: "Gershwin-Rhapsody-Bernstein"
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 42264
8:20 am
- Lumi, potete piangere ("Eyes, can you weep?")
- Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi
- Ensemble: L'Arpeggiata
- Soloists: Nuria Rial, soprano ; Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
- Conductor: Christina Pluhar
- CD/Album: "Via Crucis"
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 694577
- Note: * NEW recording, released in the US on 4/20/10 *
8:23 am
- Passacagalia
- Composer: Maurizio Cazzati
- Ensemble: L'Arpeggiata
- Conductor: Christina Pluhar
- CD/Album: "Via Crucis"
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 694577
- Note: * NEW recording, released in the US on 4/20/10 *
8:31 am
- Vals de la Primavera
- Composer: Augustin Barrios
- Soloists: David Russell, guitar
- CD/Album: "Music of Barrios"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80373
8:32 am
- On Reaching The Age of Two Hundred
- Composer: Donald Hall, poet and narrator
- CD/Album: "White Apples and the Taste of Stone"
- Record co./Cat #: Houghton Mifflin Company 2006
8:40 am
- Birthday Cantata Overture
- Composer: Johann Christian Bach
- Ensemble: Hanover Band
- Conductor: Anthony Halstead
- CD/Album: "Johann Christian Bach: Overtures Vol. 1"
- Record co./Cat #: CPO 999129
8:50 am
- Samson and Dalila: Bacchanale
- Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
- Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
- Conductor: Erich Kunzel
- CD/Album: "Classics at the Pops"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80595
9:02 am
- Romance #1 in G for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 40
- Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Soloists: Gil Shaham, violin
- CD/Album: "Violin Romances"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 449923
9:09 am
- Concert Etude "Un Sospiro"
- Composer: Franz Liszt
- Soloists: Jorge Bolet, piano
- CD/Album: "Liszt Liebestraum - Favorite Piano Works"
- Record co./Cat #: London 444851
- Note: ("A sigh")
9:18 am
- Sospiri , Op. 70
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
- Conductor: Neville Marriner
- CD/Album: "Vaughan Williams - Delius - Elgar - Warlock"
- Record co./Cat #: London 452707
- Note: ("sighs")
9:26 am
- Piano Concerto #27 in Bb , K 595
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
- Soloists: Clifford Curzon, piano
- Conductor: Benjamin Britten
- CD/Album: "Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27"
- Record co./Cat #: London 417288