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London bookseller and publisher (1623-1686)
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2022-05-19 06:34:59
Shining Shore: The Music of Early America
[…] the disc in 2020 meant that "these songs’ texts about mortality and hope held a deep significance for us." Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble The music stretches over quite a range. Purcell's hornpipe Well’s Humour (from 1692) was in circulation thanks to John Walsh’s The Compleat Country Dancing Master, whilst Handel's Dead March from Saul was popular as a funeral march in the whole English speaking world. John Playford's anthologies were also popular in America (and were included in the music collections of American presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson), and the group performs their own arrangement of one of Playford's tunes, John Come Kiss Me by violinist Thomas Baltzar (c.1630-1663) There are four pieces on the album from The Christian Harmony (New Hampshire, 1805) by Jeremiah Ingalls (1764-1828), a farmer of Vermont whose was an important figure in the First New England […]
2022-02-10 08:29:11
[…] The 2022 series at the institute has a particular contemporary focus with music in the season by Arthur Sajas, Marc Antoine Millon, Dorothea Hofmann, Roger Steptoe, Gualtiero Dazzi, Frédéric Bousquet, Jean-Michel Hasler, Karol Beffa, Camille Pépin, Kaija Saariaho, Thomas Keck, Sofia Gubaidulina and Raphaël Imbert. For the second concert in the series, on 10 March 2022, the French ensemble L'hostel dieu transports us to 17th century London. With mezzo-soprano Axelle Verner they perform music by Purcell, Playford, Lanier, Eccles, and Locke. Then on 14 April, Ensemble Diabolus in Musica conducted by Nicolas Sansarlat and Ensemble Alla Francesca conducted by Brigitte Lesne, join forces to transport us to 12th century Paris with Notre-Dame, the voice of cathedrals, mixing plainchant, music from the 12th century Notre Dame school with other music from the period. Further ahead, there is a tribute to Marcel Proust on the centenary of his death, a concert that mixes French contemporary […]
2021-11-30 09:34:20
A snapshot of London musical life in 17th and 18th centuries from Ensemble Hesperi at Temple Church
John Playford (engraving by David Loggan) Handel, Purcell, Blow, Playford, Oswald; Ensemble Hesperi; Temple Music at Temple Church Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 29 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The period instrument ensemble exploring music by the web of musicians who lived or worked near Temple during the late 17th and early 18th centuriesDuring the late 17th and 18th centuries, the area around the Temple was home to quite a number of musicians. During the 1640s, John Playford opened a music shop by Temple Church and his business would remain in the area, whilst John Walsh would open his music shop in the nearby Strand in the 1690s. Other musicians lived in the area also, and it was this web of connections that Ensemble Hesperi explored in their concert in Temple Church on Monday 29 November 2021 for Temple Music. The ensemble, Mary-Jannet Leith (recorders), […]
2021-11-15 09:22:38
From 'The Poppy' to 'Hit Her on the Bum': Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours
[…] to London, to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London - by Scottish composers who spent most of their career there, and by Italian composers inspired by traditional Scots melodies. So we have a disc which mixes music by such London-based Scottish figures as James Oswald and Robert Bremner, a Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Kellie, Italian composers Giuseppi Sammartini, Nicola Matteis and Francesco Geminiani, along with a tune from a Henry Playford collection. The music can be a long way from what we think of as Scottish, even when tunes are quoted directly they are tidied up and regularised, made suitable for those 18th-century drawing rooms.. Whilst the musical traditions of Highland and Lowland Scotland were entirely separate, seen from London, Scotsmen were Scotsmen and their music was uniform. This developed further as after the Union (in 1707), the Scots sought to forge a coherent cultural […]
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