The collections of airs published in France by Ballard between 1608 and 1643 contain 17 airs on Italian words, of which six are in the polyphonic collections, six are for voice with lute tablature and five for voice with guitar tablature. Taking account of variants and different versions, polyphonic or monodic, of the same pieces, we are left with ten texts – a rather insignificant group amid a repertoire of over 2,000 French airs. The present recording manages to include all these ten texts, thereby presenting almost all the Italian airs published by French composers during Louis XIII’s reign.  The musicians of Il Festino have interspersed these airs with a number of instrumental pieces and songs to Spanish texts of the same period. All the Italian airs are by three of the foremost French composers of the time, each of whom moved in court and salon circles.  

• Wykonawca Il Festino
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1  W. A. Mozart: 1. Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K.16 2. Symphony No. 4 in D major, K.19  Thomas Arne 3. Two Airs from "Judith" - "Sleep, gentle Cherub! Sleep descend", "O torment great, too great to bear" 4. Two Airs from 'Artaxerxes" - "Amid a thousand racking woes", "O too lovely, too unkind" 5. "O Dolly, I part" from "The Guardian Outwitted"  J. C. Bach 6. Harpsichord Concerto in D major, Op.1, No. 6 7. "Non so d’onde viene" from "Ezio" 8. "Confusa, smarrita" from "Berenice"  Egidio Duni 9. "To speak my mind of womankind" from "The Maid of the Mill"  Malcolm Arnold 10. "Hist, hist! I hear my mother call" from "The Maid of the Mill"  Giovanni Battista Pescetti 11. "Caro mio bene, addio" from "Ezio" CD 2  W. A. Mozart: 1. Symphony in F major, K.19a 2. Concert Aria, "Va, dal furor portata", K. 21  J. C. Bach 3. "Deh lascia, o ciel pietoso" from "Adriano in Siria" 4. "Cara la dolce fiamma" from "Adriano in Siria"  Rush 5. Overture to "The Capricious Lovers" 6. "Thus laugh’d at, jilted and betray’d" from "The Capricious Lovers"  Mason Bates 7. "In this I fear my latest breath" from "Pharnaces"  Davide Perez 8. "Se non ti moro a lato" from "Solimano"  Karl Friedrich Abel 9. Symphony in E flat major, Op. 7, No. 6

• Wykonawca The Mozartists , Grimson Martene , Devine Steven
• Data premiery 2018-05-01
• Nośnik CD