The Early Music Show - Curtals, Dulcians, Fagotts and Bassoons

Curtels, Dulcians, Fagots and Bassoons Lucie Skeaping looks at how the bassoon developed from its forerunner - the curtel, dulcian or bajon, with the help of experts Maggie Kilbey and Andrew Watts. The programme includes music by Schütz, Salazar, Bertoli, Padilla, Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann. Producer: Les Pratt BBC Manchester Playlist: Vivaldi – Concerto for bassoon in A minor RV.499 Tamás Benkócs (bassoon) Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia Conducted by Béla Drahos NAXOS 8.557829 Track 12 Giovanni Antonio Bertoli – Sonata prima per fagotto solo Paolo Tognon (bassoon) SCIUT SOL SCDS 1001 Track 2 Biagio Marini – Sonata ottava per doi fagotti Op.8 Paolo Tognon & Stefano Somalvico Berquier (bassoons) NALESSO RECORDS NR 007 Track 1 Schütz – Invenerunt me custodes civitatis (Sinfoniae Sacrae Op.6) Concerto Palatino ACCENT ACC 9178 Disc 1 Track 9 Juan Garcia de Salazar – Veni, sponsa Christi (Complete Vespers of Our Lady) Capilla Peñaflorida / Ministriles de Marsias Directed by Josep Cabré NAXOS 8.555907 Track 20 Juan Gutierrez de Padilla – Xácara: A la xácara xacarilla (excerpt) The Harp Consort Directed by Andrew Lawrence-King HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2907293 Track 7 Antonio Bertali – Sonata for 2 violins and bassoon in G major Ensemble Echo du Danube Directed by Christian Zincke NAXOS 8.557679 Track 8 J.S. Bach – B Minor Mass (Quoniam tu solus sanctus) Hanno Müller-Brachmann Collegium Vocale Ghent Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901614-15 CD1 Track 11 Handel – Saul (“Infernal spirits; Why hast thou forced me”) Philip Salmon (witch) / Richard Savage (Samuel) English Baroque Soloists Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner PHILIPS 426 265-2 CD 3 Tracks 2-3 Rameau – Les Indes Galantes (Prologue: Menuet 2) Les arts Florissants Conducted by William Christie HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901367.69 CD1 Track 6 Devienne – Sonata for bassoon & continuo Op.24 No.4 (3rd movement) Danny Bond (bassoon) Richte van der Meer (cello) / Robert Kohnen (harpsichord) ACCENT ACC 9290 D Track 12