André Danican Philidor News
French oboist and composer
- oboe
- France
- oboist, composer, librarian, music archivist
Last update
2024-04-24
Refresh
2023-07-31 04:00:00
Lully & Philidor: Music for Oboe Band (Paul Goodwin, London Oboe Band)
2022-03-02 08:41:48
Elan and style: Grands Motets by Michel-Richard De Lalande from Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances
Michel-Richard De Lalande Dies Irae, Miserere, Veni creator; Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé; Harmonia Mundi Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 March 2022 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) With this disc of three of De Lalande's Grands Motets, all recorded in their early versions, we are immediately transported to the sound-world of the Grand SiècleThe music and the sound-world on this disc are extremely redolent. Start playing it and you are immediately whisked back to the chapel of the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. On Harmonia Mundi, Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances have recorded three of the Grands Motets by Michel-Richard De Lalande, Dies Irae, Miserere and Veni Creator. The Grand Motet was a large-scale choral composition in which two bodies of musicians at court (singers and instrumentalists) came together so that the Grand Motet was usually for soloists, double choir and instrumentalists. The form brought […]
2022-01-23 09:26:09
Pure joy: ECHO Rising Star recorder player Lucie Horsch & lutenist Thomas Dunford in music old & new
Thomas Dunford & Lucie Horsch (image from Lucie Horsch's Instagram feed) ECHO Rising Stars; Lucie Horsch, Thomas Dunford; LSO St Luke's Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 January 2022 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Technical facility and great charm from recorder player Lucie Horsch and lutenist Thomas Dunford in a programme of old and new music performed with understated aplombEach year the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) nominates a group of Rising Stars, and the selected young artists are offered the opportunity to present a programme of their own choosing, across venues across the ECHO network. One of this year's ECHO Rising Stars is Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch. On Friday 21 January 2022, at LSO St Lukes (presented by the Barbican) Lucie Horsch (recorders) and Thomas Dunford (lute) performed a programme that mixed Baroque music with contemporary works including pieces by Dario Castello, Igor Stravinsky, John Dowland, Francois […]
2020-06-29 06:39:48
Politics, Poetry & Personal Interest: Lully, King Louis XIV and the invention of French opera
Apollo performed by Louis XIV, Ballet de la nuit 1653 In 1653, fourteen-year-old King Louis XIV of France took part in the Ballet Royal de la nuit, a ballet de cour which was highly elaborate and took 13 hours to perform. A twenty-one-year old Italian musician and dancer, Jean-Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli) danced with Louis in the ballet. The two got on and this relationship would have an important influence on opera in France. A strange mixture of politics and personal interest would ensure that, almost uniquely in Europe, the French rejected Italian opera and developed a style of opera very particular to France and the French language. And central to this process would by Lully. But in 1653, opera hardly existed in France and the important genre was the ballet de cour, the name given to the 16th and 17th century ballets performed at […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...