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Academy of Ancient Music: Monteverdi and Castello

Sopranos Carolyn Samspson and Rowan Pierce and the Academy of Ancient Music under Richard Egarr perform 17th-century Venetian sacred and secular music by Monteverdi and Castello.

Richard Egarr directs the Academy of Ancient Music and leading sopranos Carolyn Samspson and Rowan Pierce in a delightful programme of seventeenth-century Venetian sacred and secular vocal and instrumental music. The sensuous sacred motets and psalm settings of Claudio Monteverdi are paired with the quirky instrumental sonatas of his colleague and contemporary at St Mark's, Dario Castello.

Recorded last week at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, and presented by Verity Sharp.

Monteverdi: 'Venite sitientes ad aquas', SV 335
Castello: Sonata duodecima
Monteverdi: 'O bone Jesu o piissimi Jesu', SV 313
Castello: Sonata sesta
Monteverdi: 'Exulta filia Sion', SV 303
Castello: Sonata undecima
Monteverdi: 'O beatae viae', SV 312

Carolyn Sampson & Rowan Pierce (sopranos)
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (director, harpsichord & organ)

8.15pm Interval Music (from CD)
Richard Egarr reveals his penchant for symphonic arrangements of seventeenth- and fifteenth-century music.
Henry Purcell: Concert Suite (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Johannes Ockeghem: Intemerata Dei mater (arr. Richard Egarr)
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Egarr (conductor)

Monteverdi: 'Sancta Maria succurre miseris', SV 328
Castello: Sonata quarta
Monteverdi: 'Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius', SV 287
Castello: Sonata seconda
Monteverdi: 'Jubilet tota civitas', SV 286
Castello: Sonata Nona
Monteverdi: 'Cantate Domino', SV 292

Carolyn Sampson & Rowan Pierce (sopranos)
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (director, harpsichord & organ).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Venite sitientes ad aquas

      Singer: Rowan Pierce. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata duodecima

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      O bone Jesu o piissimi Jesu

      Singer: Rowan Pierce. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata sesta

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Exulta filia Sion

      Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata undecimal

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      O beatae viae

      Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Rowan Pierce. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
  • Interval

    • Henry Purcell

      Concert suite arr. L Stokowski

      Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Richard Egarr.
      • An Evening With Leopold Stokowski.
      • GLOSSA.
      • 11.
    • Johannes Ockeghem

      Intemerata Dei Mater

      Orchestrator: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
      • An Evening with Leopold Stokowski.
      • GLOSSA.
      • 18.
  • Part 2

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Sancta Maria succurre miseris

      Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Rowan Pierce. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata quarta

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius

      Singer: Rowan Pierce. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata seconda

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Jubilet tota civitas

      Singer: Rowan Pierce. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Dario Castello

      Sonata nona

      Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Cantate Domino

      Singer: Rowan Pierce. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
  • Post-concert

    • Julius Reubke

      Piano Sonata in Bb minor

      Performer: Markus Becker.

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Dec 2016 19:30