Something is a little confusing about the title of Hamburg 1734, the Harmonia Mundi disc by ace harpsichordist Andreas Staier. Is this a collection of music heard, specifically, in the city of Hamburg, Germany, in 1734? Right off the bat one notices the Handel Chaconne in G major, HWV 435, and realizes that this could not be right; although Handel ...
A high-concept disc if ever there was one, Don Quichotte in Hamburg has as its conceit the fanciful notion that the Knight of the Rueful Countenance and his faithful squire Sancho Panza visited the free imperial city of Hamburg and spent a night listening to music intended to recount their adventures. Everything from the repertoire to the ...
Although somewhat obscured by the momentous discovery in 1999 of the Singakademie Collection in Kiev, a no less significant find was the slightly earlier recovery of manuscripts once belonging to the Hamburg City Library of music by Johann Mattheson, looted in 1945, but found in Armenia and returned to Hamburg in 1998. When Mattheson's opera Boris ...
In 1975, electronic music pioneer Robert Moog realized a long-held dream at his own expense, to document in high quality recordings the artistry of his idol, Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, who was getting on in years. The equivalent of at least two albums were recorded at Producers Recording Studio in New York with Rockmore, her aging ...
The discovery of music manuscripts from the estate of composer and music journalist Johann Mattheson in Armenia has been the cause of great excitement for fanciers of the German Baroque -- here, finally, is the opportunity to get to know this friend of Handel and Bach whose written words are so eloquent and informative, yet whose music has proven ...
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