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German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
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- pipe organ, harpsichord, oboe
- opera, oratorio, concerto, anthem, classical music, coronation anthem
- Brandenburg-Prussia, Kingdom of Great Britain, Holy Roman Empire
- composer, harpsichordist, organist, violinist, opera composer, composer, impresario, university teacher
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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change - interviewHome
2024-03-15 10:40:00
KammermusiksaalMendelssohn: Psalm 115, ‘Nicht unserm Namen, Herr’, MWV A 9 Fanny Hensel: Hiob Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, op.23 no.2, MWV B 19 Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten, MWV B 49 Bach: Cantata, ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’, BWV 75: Sinfonia to the second part Mendelssohn: Psalm 114, ‘Da Israel aus Ägypten zog,’ op.51 Anna Prohaska (soprano)Benjamin Bruns (tenor)Ludwig Mittelhammer (bass)RIAS Chamber ChoirKammerakademie PotsdamJustin Doyle (conductor) A delightful and enlightening concert from the RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle, and an excellent trio of vocal soloists: focusing on Mendelssohn, but also including a cantata by his sister Fanny Hensel and a sinfonia by the family’s musical house god, Johann Sebastian Bach. Mendelssohn’s setting of verses from the 115th Psalm was the first of five such large-scale settings he made for soloists, chorus, and orchestra between 1829 and 1844. It revealed almost equally strong influence from Bach and Handel, the latter in particular occasionally Mozartified. […]
2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
[…] about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change - interviewHome
2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change - interviewDancing with Piazzolla: Welcome to the sophisticated world of the London Tango Quintet - record reviewHome
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