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German composer and organist (1653-1704)
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2023-03-15 04:00:00
Chaconne (Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln)
Chaconnes and Passacaglias by:Jean-Baptiste Lully, Biagio Marini, Arcangelo Corelli,Henry Purcell, John Blow, Rupert Ignaz Mayr, Georg Muffat &Johann Christoph PezelReinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln(Period Instruments Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion 453 418-2 (1997)[Flac & Scans]
2022-03-05 05:31:00
[…] music ensemble can and should be for modern and diverse audiences.Richard Egarr returns for his third year as Music Director in a season that is consciously daring without ever losing sight of core repertoire, albeit through a changing lens. It is a season that spans everything PBO has become over the past decade—featuring so many rising stars and established soloists, influencers and conductors; world premieres and new productions; large scale choral works by Handel and Muffat; new twists on acclaimed series Jews & Music and SESSIONS; touring in Europe and on the East Coast to be announced soon. Taken as a whole, 22/23 commits fully to exploring and presenting what a Baroque ensemble can and should be in a classical landscape that must reach broadly and with intentionality.For details, visit https://philharmonia.org/--Aleba Gartner, Aleba & Co. Pavel Sporcl Named Chairman of the Jury of the Kocian Violin CompetitionThe world's oldest violin competition […]
2021-05-31 14:52:22
Argerich, Tennstedt 2021
[…] Marin Marais, on May 31, 1656, in Paris. The French composer and viol player, he studied the viol with the famous Sainte-Colombe and composition with Lully. Marais performed at the court of Louis XIV and was famous in France and beyond. Even though he’s mostly known for his viol compositions, Marais also wrote several operas. Here’s the Overture to his opera Alcione, performed by Le Concert des Nations under the direction of Jordi Savall. Georg Muffat (born on June 1st of 1673, about whom the Gove Dictionary writes: ”German composer and organist of French birth… He considered himself a German, although his ancestors were Scottish and his family had settled in Savoy in the early 17th century.” Also: Mikhail Glinka, the first Russian composer to reject the Italianate ways of his predecessors (June 1st of 1804); Sir Edward Elgar; and Aram Khachaturian, one of the better Soviet composers. Two conductors […]
2021-04-11 09:43:26
A Life On-Line: Bach from Leamington Spa, Australia, Perth and Oxford, plus Coleridge-Taylor from London
[…] featured more Bach, but this time the great composer's cousin Johann Christoph. The orchestra (nine players performing conductorless) was joined by baritone Marcus Farnsworth for a terrific programme which went to places that chamber orchestra programmes sometimes neglect to go to. So we had a short, but terrific, Pavan from Johann Schop, Telemann's highly characterful cantata So grausam mächtig ist der Teufel, which warns of the devil's charms, a lovely selection of dances by Georg Muffat, a Biber serenata which combined dances with a night-watchman's song evoking a Salzburg evening, a toccata by Frohberger and finally Johann Christoph Bach's truly wonderful Lamento 'Ach, daß ich Wassers g’nug hätte, in a vividly engaging performance from Farnsworth and the instrumentalists. [Scottish Chamber Orchestra] Tenor Daniel Norman's Postive Note films has joined forces again with the Oxford Bach Soloists to explore Bach's Mass in B minor in a series of weekly performances. This […]
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