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2023-11-23 16:26:03
Faust/Schreiber/Tamestit/Queyras/Melnikov(Harmonia Mundi)This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balancedIt’s eight years now since violinist
2023-03-30 22:13:20
New and recent releases of interest. Liza Lim, Annunciation Triptych; Cristian Măcelaru conducting the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, with Emily Hindrichs (Kairos) Mozart, String Quintets K. 515 and 516; Ebène Quartet with Antoine Tamestit (Warner) Ligeti, Choral Works; Yuval Weinberg conducting...
2022-07-18 05:27:00
Telemann: Viola Concertos (CD review)
Overtures-Fantasias. Antoine Tamestit, viola; Sabine Fehlandt, viola; Bernhard Forck, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902342.By John J. PuccioIf you’re like me, you will immediately recognize the name of German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) but probably have trouble remembering anything he wrote. Alas, it is sometimes the fate of famous people who are perhaps more famous for their name alone than anything they actually did. The fact is, however, that Telemann was one of the most prolific composers of the Baroque age, maybe in all history, having written hundreds, if not thousands, of works. What’s more, he was a close friend of both J.S. Bach and Handel, and today he has a whole museum in Hamburg dedicated to him.On the present disc, violist Antoine Tamestit with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Forck (and alongside violist Sabine Fehlandt in a couple of […]
2022-06-29 09:20:49
New season at St Martin in the Fields
The church of St Martin-in-the-Fields has announced its Autumn season, continuing the venues development of its role as a significant concert location. Headline performances include Harry Christophers and the Sixteen in their choral pilgrimage for 2022 including Parry's Songs of Farewell, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Gardiner also conducts the English Baroque Soloists in music by Mozart and Haydn with Isabelle Faust (violin) and Antoine Tamestit (viola) , the BBC Singers in Durufle's Requiem, and La Serenissma in a concert exploring the life of English violinist and composer Nicola Matteis the Younger, whose Italian father was a close friend of Henry Purcell but who spent most of his career in Vienna. Other visitors include Polyphony, Fretwork, The Gesualdo Six, Rodolfus Choir and London Mozart Players in Judith Bingham's Clarinet Concerto with Jonathan LeibovitzBaritone Benjamin Appl starts his residency with a concert devoted to the extraordinary life of Holocaust […]
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