May’s ensemble Minerva Baroque performing the first of Corelli’s great opus 5 set of sonatas, featuring harpsichordist Callum Anderson and cellist Iain Hall, recorded by Tom Mungall at Heath Street Baptist Church.
With harpsichordist Dan Tidhar, May performs the second solo sonata of Dario Castello, a perfect example of the ‘phantasticus’ seventeenth-century Italian sonata.
A folkier take on the seventeenth century: Minerva Baroque performs ‘Duke of Norfolk, or Paul’s Steeple’ from John Playford’s The Division Violin, again recorded by Tom Mungall.
The first two movements of J.S. Bach’s D minor Partita.
The Sarabande ‘La Noble Fierté’ from the ninth Concert Royal of François Couperin, with harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik.
An audio clip from Orphée by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, with Angela Hicks (soprano), David Wright (harpsichord) and Harry Buckocke (viola da gamba).
May’s arrangement, for three multitracked violin lines, of the Musette from Couperin’s third Concert Royal.
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