Rich and sonorous but robust and strong, Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music's January 2006 recording of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 3, is exemplary Handel playing. The Academy, of course, are long familiar with how to play Handel: they've been performing his music as a group since being started in England by harpsichordist ...
Mozart's flute quartets could stand alone as a prime example for the significant influence that publishers exerted over a composer's work. The Quartet K. 285 underwent key changes and movement substitutions under K. 285a, and additional key changes and perhaps author changes under K. 285b (the actual composer of these two movements is the subject ...
In his day in the middle eighteenth century, Charles Avison was considered one of the great composers of England. He first started to get a case of bad PR when he made the statement that his teacher, Geminiani (who by that time had PR problems of his own, stemming from his questionable activities as an art dealer), was a greater composer than ...
Rich and sonorous but robust and strong, Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music's January 2006 recording of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 3, is exemplary Handel playing. The Academy, of course, is long familiar with how to play Handel: it has been performing his music since being founded in England by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in ...
While a program of works for soprano plus a pair of fiddlers might seem unlikely to succeed with a larger audience, soprano Catherine Bott and fiddlers Pavlo Beznosiuk and Mark Levy, taking their performing repertoire from the twelfth through fifteenth centuries and their interpretative stance from pop music, make Delectatio angeli riveting from ...
The German label CPO, consistently dedicated to underappreciated music, has brought along many recordings of unfamiliar works ranging in status from central to the literature to wholly unworthy of revival. One of the most distinguished, and consequential, projects that CPO has undertaken is its recording of the complete Symphonies Concertantes of ...
This Erato release attempts to introduce the listener to various aspects, some perhaps neglected, of Pergolesi's work. Such an attempt would be quite laudable, Pergolesi mainly being known for his Stabat Mater and the brilliant intermezzo La serva padrona, were not Pergolesi: Marian Vespers, a random sequence of disparate vocal and instrumental ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas were written in Salzburg in the 1670s or 1680s, and they're really unlike anything else in the violin literature. Scordatura, or unconventional tuning of an instrument's strings, was common enough during the Baroque era, but Biber's cycle of 15 pieces for violin and continuo explores the technique ...
The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices. The idea behind the series was to contrast examples drawn from the ample extant French medieval literature with the more scant English variety, and overall it demonstrates that Franco-Flemish musical practice had more in ...
There is already an abundance of superlative historically informed recordings of Handel's Opus 3 and Opus 6 concerti grossi and his Opus 4 organ concerti, and to that already long list you can add the present recording. The playing and recorded sound are fabulous, and the works themselves are rich enough to reveal new facets in any sufficiently ...
The music of Newcastle-based composer Charles Avison is becoming more frequently recorded. His Italian-style trio sonatas, here designated Six Sonatas for two violins and a bass, Op. 1, were written under the influence of Avison's teacher Geminiani and thus come down in a line directly from Corelli. Each is in four movements, with a good deal of ...
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