After the violin and bassoon, Vivaldi apparently like the cello best as a solo instrument. Because while the Italian Baroque master wrote somewhere over 200 violin concertos and 39 bassoon concertos, he also wrote 28 cello concertos. Part of his special affection may come from the fact that Vivaldi himself seems to have invented the genre. ...
Does this two-disc set contain John Dowland's greatest hits? Yes, indeed, it does. With "Flow, My Tears," "In Darkness Let Me Dwell," "Come, Heavy Sleep," seven "Larchimae" of various sorts, plus his greatest hit of all, "Semper Dowland, semper dolens," all the melancholy Elizabethan English composer's best-known and best-loved hits are here. Are ...
Heinrich Schütz is the Rodney Dangerfield among the great masters; despite his enormous output and unchallenged status as the father of the German Baroque, Schütz is truly only popular in German-speaking lands and to a lesser degree in England. Although Schütz's music is recorded with frequency and by ensembles of the highest caliber, the Schütz ...
The 1991 French film Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World) attracted an audience of unexpected size for a story about French Baroque viol music, becoming a runaway hit in France and Germany and even gained wide distribution in the classical-chary U.S. The commercial ramifications grew with the release of the film's soundtrack, ...
Hector Berlioz's songs are certainly the most overlooked area of his output, even though they demonstrate no less color, eccentricity, or Romantic boldness than his work in other genres. Alpha Productions' Hector Berlioz: La Belle Voyageuse collects 15 of Berlioz's songs and submits them to a period treatment, or at least to a period instrument, ...
Franz Josef Haydn produced about a half dozen works for the Lire Organizzate, an eighteenth century hybrid of the hurdy-gurdy and organetto that by the twentieth century was nothing more than a museum instrument, with only about 20 examples extant and none playable. These works are commonly performed on recordings with a standard pipe organ in ...
This is a reissue of a 1997 disc, rereleased and apparently remastered by the Laborie label; it's both musically immensely appealing and sonically quite spectacular, the setting of the Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon Secours in Paris being nothing short of ideal for these Baroque grands motets for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. You won't learn much ...
Recorded in 1994 and first released in 1995 on Astrée, Christophe Coin's performances of Bach's four cantatas featuring piccolo cello are masterpieces of the genre. As with all Bach's cantatas, the setting and scoring of each is distinctly different -- Ich bin ein guter Hirt (I am a good Shepherd) (BWV 85) is in six movements for four soloists, ...
The subsidiary figure of Cardenio in the novel Don Quixote -- a sort of romantic fool to match Quixote's wider madness -- had quite an afterlife in European literature and drama. Shakespeare may have written a play about him, now lost. The music by Michel-Richard de Lalande recorded here was written for a ballet that accompanied a large French ...
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