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2022-08-01 14:57:24
Rott and Power, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: August 1, 2022. Hans Rott, Leonel Power. Today is the birthday of the Austrian composer Hans Rott; he was born in Braunhirschengrund, a suburb of Vienna, in 1858. A composer of obvious talent who lived a short and tragic life, he in a way anticipated Mahler. Both Bruckner and Mahler recognized him as a major talent. We wrote an entry about Rott, you can read it here. It seems that we’re not the only ones fascinated by Rott: his Symphony no. 1, the only one he completed, and some of his other works are being recorded on a regular basis. In the past two years a two-volume CD set was issued by the Capriccio label; it features the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, one of the two major Cologne orchestras, under the direction of Christopher Ward and contains practically all of Rott’s symphonic music. This week is […]
2021-12-27 15:17:39
Farewell to 2021
This Week in Classical Music: December 27, 2021. Happy New Year. This was a difficult year, in more ways than one. The Covid pandemic overwhelmed all aspects of our lives and hit classical music very hard. As concert halls closed, musicians tried to migrate to the Internet only to find that in most cases it didn’t work – the viewership was very low. There are many reasons for that, the most obvious being the difference between the ambience of a live concert and the remoteness of listening to a recorded performance on your phone or computer. But there are other reasons: the Internet had been chock full of good performances even before the pandemic. Some, uploaded from CD, had the advantage of being engineered and scrubbed of all technical imperfections. It’s one thing to hear (and dismiss) an occasional wrong note in a concert hall, where the intimacy of the […]
2021-03-29 11:19:00
Super-excellent Gabrieli and RVW on viols: National Centre for Early Music's Awaken festival
Title page of Coryat's Crudities, 1611. Awaken - RVW, Johann Christoph Bach, Gabrieli; Iestyn Davies, Fretwork, I Fagiolini, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth; National Centre for Early Music Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 March 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From RVW on viols combined with North German 17th century composers to Gabrieli writ large, NCEM's Awaken festivalLast weekend (27 and 28 March 2020) the National Centre for Early Music in York presented Awaken: Music Online for Spring with a variety of concerts from historic venues across York. We caught two of the events, on Saturday counter-tenor Iestyn Davies joined Fretwork for a programme of music by Schein, Scheidt, Johann Christoph Bach, Franz Tunder, Christian Geist and RVW. Then on Sunday evening, Robert Hollingworth conducted I Fagiolini, the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble and former members of the The 24 in Super-excellent a programme […]
2020-12-21 01:41:00
The Annual Christmas post
Hello all!Again we have teamed up to present a collection of Christmas Music from the 15th through the 20th Centuries. We hope you enjoy our selection. We feel there may be a little something for everybody during this Blessed Holiday Season. May you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ~ Thomas Cadfael, Dutch Publisher & the rest of the Core Team ~ Au Sainct Nau Ensemble Clément Janequin Dominique Visse - direction Label: Alpha 198 Recorded: June 2013 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Weihnachten; A German Christmas Works of Praetorius, Nicolai, Schütz, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Distler Seattle Pro Musica Karen P. Thomas - direction Label: SPM CD 9804 Recorded June 2002 [flacs & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-1560) Magnificat I, Salve Regina, Credo, Tulerunt […]
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