This hour features new, special CDs with early music. Focus on the CDs ‘Fireworks for Lute’ with lute music by Silvius Leopold Weiss by Bernard Hofstötter, and the CD ‘Cabinet de Curiosités’ with harpsichord music by Händel and Geminiani, performed on piano by Cristian Monti.
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
1. Capriccio in G
2. Sonata no. 42 in A minor
– Allemande: Largo
– Allegro
– Bourrée
– Sarabande
– Menuet
– Gigue
Bernard Hofstötter, lute (13-string baroque lute from Hendrik Hasenfuss, 2007)
(CD Silvius Leopold Weiss, Fireworks for Lute. Christophorus CHR 774485, 2025)
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
3. Prelude – Lentement
4. Rondeau – Tendrement
5. Vivement
6. Gracieusement
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
7. Suite no. 2 for harpsichord in F, HWV 427
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro
Cristian Monti, piano
(CD Cabinet de curiosités, Galaxie–Y, 2022)
