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English composer
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2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
[…] especially popular. The composer’s public at the time and for a long while after tended to prefer his Biblical oratorios. Since the revival and, latterly, the craze for his Italian opere serie, they have ruled the roost. Semele, another ‘musical drama’, ‘after the manner of an oratorio’, has fared better since its modern stage revival in Cambridge in 1925. Handel never intended it to be staged, though the librettist (William Congreve) and original composer (John Eccles) had. It perhaps comes closest to Hercules, whose first staging was also in 1925 – the very beginning of the modern Handel revival – though in Münster. Whilst perhaps not the most compelling, dramatically, of all Handel’s works, Hercules, to a libretto by the Anglican clergyman Thomas Broughton, is certainly not the least either. This new production from Berlin’s Komische Oper affords a valuable opportunity, certain shortcomings notwithstanding, for news audience to see and […]
2024-02-02 00:00:00
Awakening Princesses
Awakening Princesses18th-century recorders fromThe Bate Collection, OxfordWorks of Dieupart, Paisible, Eccles, Banister,Schickhardt, Finger, Barsanti and othersPeter Holtslag - recordersElizabeth Kenny - archlute, theorboRainer Zipperling - viol, baroque celloCarsten Lohff - harpsichordRecorded November 2011Label: Aeolus AE-10186Download 1fichier pixel workupload (16-44) 357 MBDownload 1fichier pixel (SACD iso) 3,22 GB
2023-09-14 04:00:00
Sound the Trumpet: Henry Purcell and his Followers (Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments)
Sound the Trumpet: Henry Purcell and his FollowersSonatas & Sinfonias by William Corbett (d1748) Henry Purcell (1759-1695) Gottfried Finger (d1730) William Croft (1678-1727) John Eccles (1668-1733) John Barrett (d1719) & James Paisible (d1721)Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments(Period Instruments)Hyperion CDA66817 (1996)[Flac & Scans]
2023-02-06 15:00:59
Here comes the judgement
Chris’s Cache offers a pride of short early English works: John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (1683); Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) and The Indian Queen (1695); John Eccles’s The Judgement of Paris (1700); William Boyce’s Solomon (1743); and John Stanley’s Arcadia (1762).
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