Hasse: Sonatas and Trio Sonatas represents the maiden voyage for decade-old period instrument ensemble Epoca Barocca on the Chandos label. For the occasion, Epoca Barocca has elected to perform six previously unrecorded chamber works of late Baroque composer Johann Adolf Hasse, which have scrupulously been sought out in manuscripts and early ...
Johann Friedrich Fasch was seven years younger than Georg Philipp Telemann was and outlived him by one year; Fasch, Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach all traveled in similar circles. In 1720, for example, both Fasch and Bach were gainfully employed in the courts of the Anhalt princes, Bach in Cöthen and Fasch in Zerbst. However, Telemann ...
The shadow that Bach casts over modern perceptions of music of the eighteenth century's first half has resulted in a perception of an unwarranted duality: there was the "conservative" Bach, contrasted with the "galant" Telemann and his successors. Of course there were transitional figures whose music mixed conservative and progressive elements, ...
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