The Early Music Show - 09/11/2008

We all know what is now called a Symphony, but the term has had many varied uses. Lucie Skeaping tracks down the origins of the Symphonie and encounters medieval Hurdy-Gurdys, Spinets and Virginals, a tale that the Dulcimer is as old as the bible and a royal wedding, not to mention a whole host of overtures, interludes, sonatas, canzonas and concertos. With Lucie Skeaping. Including: Wagenseil: Symphony in C major, WV351 L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Michi Gaigg (conductor) CPO 999 450-2 Track 7-9 Edi be thu, heven-queenë Sequentia (with Symphonia: Hurdy Gurdy (12th C)) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77019 Track 3 Farnaby: The old Spagnoletta Martha Gmunder (Spinet) EMI CDM7631442 Track 13 Segue Bull: Galliard [d] Gary Cooper (Virginals) Dervorguilla DRVCD106 Track 20 Devil’s Dream (tune from Playford’s Dancing Master) Jim Couza (Dulcimer) SAYDISC CDSDL335 Track 8 Malvezzi: Sinfonia a 5 from Intermedio II for La Pelegrina Taverner Consort/ Andrew Parrott EMI CDC7479982 Track 7 Gabrieli: Surrexit Christus a 11 from Symphonie Sacrae II The Taverner Choir/ London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble/ Andrew Parrott OISEAU LYRE 4368602 Track 8 Segue Viadana: La Romana from Sinfonia Musicali, Op 18 Symposium Musicum Pragense KOCH 3-1620-2 Track 1 Scarlatti: Sinfonia from Griselda Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/ René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC 801805.07 Track 1 Torelli: Sinfonia Sandro Verzari/ Ensemble Seicentonovecento (dir. Flavio Colusso) BONGIOVANNI GB1000082 Tracks 14-16 Stamitz: Sinfonia Pastorale in D, Op.4 No.2 Northern Chamber Orchestra/ Nicholas Ward NAXOS 8.554447 Tracks 9-12 Haydn: Symphony 18 (3rd movement) The Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman Hyperion CDA 66533 Track 6