From folk roots, classics grow: Corelli, Beethoven, Kodály, Alexander Reinagle, Florence Price and Carl Orff reimagine old songs and dance tunes of Iberia, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, England, Scotland and early America.
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anonymous: “Folia” (Portuguese/Spanish, 15th century [Rodrigo Martinez manuscript])
string & percussion ensemble/Jordi Savall
(AliaVox)
Corelli: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 5, No. 12 (“Follia”)
Andrew Manze, violin
Richard Egarr, harpsichord
(Harmonia Mundi)
traditional (English, 16th century): “Greensleeves”
The Broadside Band/Jeremy Barlow
(Harmonia Mundi)
traditional (Anglo-American, 17th-19th centuries): “Barbara Allen”
Custer LaRue, soprano
(Dorian)
Alexander Reinagle: “Lee Rigg, a Scots Tune with Three Variations”
Olivier Baumont, harpsichord
(Erato)
Florence Price: “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint”
Avalon String Quartet
(Naxos)
Carl Orff & Gunnild Keetman: “Gassenhauer” (“Street Song”)
(after Hans Neusiedler [Slovak/German, 16th century])
percussion ensemble/Carl Orff
(RCA)
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 11 (“Gassenhauer”)
Berkeley Ensemble
(Resonus Classics)
traditional (Hungarian, medieval): “Fölszállott a páva” (“A peacock takes its perch”)
(Zoltán Kodály arrangement)
London Symphony Chorus/István Kertész
(Decca Eloquence)
Kodály: “Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song” (“The Peacock”)
London Symphony Orchestra/István Kertész
(Decca Eloquence)
anonymous (Slovak [“Collection Uhrovska,” 1730]): “Visel som” (“I was hanging”)
(Matthias Maute arrangement)
Ensemble Caprice/Matthias Maute
(Analekta)
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