Johann Pachelbel - Canon & Gigue - C. Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music
Johann Pachelbel - Canon & Gigue - C. Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music
Baroque | Easy CD-DA, APE, Cue | No Log | 1 CD, covers, booklet | 229 MB | RS
Editions de L'OISEAU-LYRE 410 553-2 | 1983
In 1981, when LP was published, Christopher Hogwood wrote:
"The fate of almost all "pops" is to be more frequently heard in adaptations, orchestrations and arrangements than in the original style and colours intended by the composers. This disc is an attempt by The Academy of Ancient Music to redress the balance a little by presenting some of the most admired masterpieces of the 18th century in their original sonorities, performed in a style and on instruments appropriate to the period."
What was written almost thirty years ago it is still truth today…
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue
for 3 violins and basso continuo in D major
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for 4 violins & cello in B minor Op3, No10
Allegro — Largo — Allegro
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Dance of the Furies (Orfeo)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Sinfonia: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1714)
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major, RV 537
Allegro — Largo — [Allegro]
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture, Minuet & Gigue (Berenice)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Air & Hornpipe (Water Music)
Violins
John Holloway — Mariani 1650
Monica Huggett — Rowland Ross 1977 (Stradivarius)
Catherine Mackintosh — Ian Boumeester, Amsterdam 1669
Elizabeth Wilcock — Grancino, Cremona 1652
Violoncello
Susan Sheppard — Peter Walmsley c.1740
Flute
Stephen Preston — Rudolf Tutz, Innsbruck 1979 (Rottenburg)
Natural Trumpets
Michael Laird — Laird (18th century copy)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood
Total timing: 51'52"