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2022-03-14 14:15:12
Telemann, two concerts 2022
[…] years ago. Though Telemann was very influential and highly regarded in the 18th century, his fame faded in the 19th, especially when musicologists like Spitta and Schweitzer started unfairly comparing him to Bach, even though during Telemann’s lifetime, and in the following decades, his music was favorably compared to that of Bach and Handel’s. Here is one of Telemann’s cantata’s, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin (Go thy way, Daniel). It is performed by the ensemble Cantus Cölln under the direction of Konrad Junghänel. We find the whole cantata very beautiful, the soprano aria Brecht, ihr müden Augenlieder especially so (it’s sung by Johanna Koslowsky). A brief note on two recent concerts. Daniil Trifonov played last week in Chicago. That he is a pianist of huge talent becomes apparent almost immediately. He played a devilishly difficult, dense Szymanowski’s piano sonata no. 3, which seems to be influenced both by Schoenberg in […]
2020-09-12 03:00:00
Biber: Masses and Chamber Music - Segarra - Lamon - Savall - Huggett - McCreesh - Wallfisch
[…] Missa Christi ResurgentisSonata a 6 - Fanfares I and IVSonates 1, III, V, VII, XI and XIIfrom Fidicinium Sacro-ProfanumJ. H. Schmelzer: Sonata XIIThe English ConcertAndrew ManzeHarmonia Mundi 2005flac, cue, log, scans The Rosary Sonatas Elizabeth Wallfisch violin Linda Kent organ and harpsichord Roseanne Hunt cello ABC 2008 digital download, cover Kerll: Missa In fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis Biber: Vesperae longiores ac breviores Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino Konrad Junghänel Accent 2013digital download, booklet and covers Sonata Pro Tabula Chamber Works by Biber - ValentiniBertali - Schmelzer - PezelMusica Antiqua KolnFlanders Recorder QuartetReinhard GoebelArchiv 2000flac, cue, log, scans Harmonia Artificioso-ariosaTafelmusikJeanne LamonSony 1994flac, cue, log, scansMissa Ex B Requiem in f minor Gabrieli Consort and Players Paul McCreesh Archiv 2004flac, cue, log, scan BiberRequiem in […]
2019-08-26 13:48:00
Pachelbel and Böhm, 2019
[…] his younger brother, Johann Sebastian). In Nuremberg Pachelbel was the organist at St. Sebaldus Church, the most important church in the city. He held this position till his death in March of 1706. Pachelbel is noted mostly for his organ works, but he was a wonderful composer of vocal church music as well. Here, for example, is one of his two settings of Magnificat (this one is in D Major). It’s performed by the ensemble Cantus Cölln under the direction of Konrad Junghänel. And speaking of the Magnificat, Pachelbel wrote 60 so called Magnificat Fugues – we’ll talk about them another time. Karl Böhm, one of Austria’s most interesting but controversial conductors, was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz. He made his conducting debut in 1917 in his hometown; in 1921 Bruno Walter invited him to the Staatsoper in Munich. He stayed there for six years; in 1927 […]
2019-06-24 14:38:54
Marcello and Abbado, 2019
June 24, 2019. Two Italians, Marcello and Abbado. Benedetto Marcello was born in Venice, on June 24th (but maybe onJuly 24th, or, according to other sources, on July 31st or August 1stof 1686) in Venice. Born into a noble family, he was the younger brother of Alessandro Marcello, also a composer (read more here about the brothers). Benedetto occupied major administrative positions within the Venetian bureaucracy and wasn’t considered a professional composer; he was casual in numbering and dating his compositions, so often the dates may be derived only circumstantially. Marcello wrote a considerable number of sacred works, including nine masses (one of them a Funeral mass, or Requiem). He also wrote what he called “parafrasi” (paraphrases) on 25 psalms, published around 1724-1726 under the heading of L’Estro poetico-armonico, or Poetic and harmonic inspirations. Here is Psalm X, in the performance by the ensemble Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel conducting. It’s a […]