Jean-Christophe Frisch: Oriental Music from the Jesuit Missionery, Le Baroque Nomade

Oriental Music from the Jesuit Missionery (playlist)
Performed by XVIII-21 Le Baroque Nomade, dir. Jean-Christophe Frisch

Portrait of Matteo Ricci, the first Catholic missionary to China during Ming dynasty (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Track Listing:
1. Mutong you shan (II), by Matteo Ricci
From CANZONE DEL MANICORDIO DI EUROPA VOLTATE IN LETTERA CINESE, known as EIGHT SONGS FOR WESTERN KEYBOARD [西琴曲意 "Xiqin Quyi"] (Beijing, 1608), by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci.

2. Xiong zhong yong ping (VI), by Matteo Ricci
From CANZONE DEL MANICORDIO DI EUROPA VOLTATE IN LETTERA CINESE, known as EIGHT SONGS FOR WESTERN KEYBOARD [西琴曲意 "Xiqin Quyi"] (Beijing, 1608), by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci.

3. Ave Maris Stella, by Athanasius Kircher / Lodovico Buglio
And Choeur du Beitang

4. Magnificat, by Felice Anerio / Lodovico Buglio

5. Suite for the full Moon
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718-1793)

Discover

• Anton Steck: Bernhard Molique Violin Concerto 3, Christoph Spering
• Jean Louis Steuerman: Bach Capriccio BWV 992 and Partita 4 BWV 828
• Ruggiero Ricci and Colleagues in Concert
• Jian Wang: Elgar Cello Concerto, Jiri Belohlavek
• Itzhak Perlman: Dvorak Violin Concerto, Slavonic Dances and Humoresque
• Itzhak Perlman: Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Daniel Barenboim
• Itzhak Perlman: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1 to 5, James Levine
• Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar
• Fritz Volbach: Es waren zwei Königskinder Op.21, Symphonic Picture
• David Ridell: Hans Christian Lumbye Alhambra, romantic waltz

 The Matteo Ricci Hall named after an Italian Jesuit missionary to China in the 16th century. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Matteo Ricci's gravestone on the grounds of the Beijing Administrative College (formerly Beijing Communist Party School), off Chegongzhuang Dajie, Beijing, China ‪ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Portrait of Athanasius Kircher 17th century German Jesuit scholar (1667) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)