Pastorella

When the chalumeau, a reed instrument from the clarinet family, was about to disappear from the stage of music history, Daniel Schubart wrote in 1784: «Its sound is so interesting, distinctive and infinitely pleasant that the entire scale of musical art would have a noticeable gap if this instrument were lost.»
«Pastorella» offers clarinettists Joan Calabuig Gaspar and Álvaro Iborra Jiménez a pastoral idyll with the rarely heard chalumeau, allowing this sound to be resurrected.
At their side as vocal soloist: 2024 Bach Prize winner Lara Morger.

JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER (c. 1623 – 1680)
Balletti à 4 in D major «Pastorella»

JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH (1688 – 1758)
Concerto for chalumeau in B flat major, FaWV L:B1

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JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER
«La bella pastora» for two violins and b.c.

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678 – 1741)
«Cum dederit dilectis» in C major, aria from «Nisi Dominus», RV 608

GIUSEPPE TARTINI (1692 – 1770)
Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 1, No. 13 «Pastorale»

ANTONIO VIVALDI
«Veni, veni, me sequere fida» aria from «Juditha triomphans», RV 644

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Concerto for 2 chalumeaux, TWV 52:d1

Violin and Direction: Meret Lüthi
Alto: Lara Morger
Chalumeau: Joan Calabuig Gaspar, Álvaro Iborra Jiménez
Orchestra: Les Passions de l'Âme