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2024-01-27 00:00:00
Marais - Pièces de viole
Marin Marais (1656-1728)Pièces de viole - Four SuitesJérome Hantaï - viola da gambaPierre Hantaï - harpsichordAlix Verzier - viola da gambaRecorded April 1996Label Virgin Veritas 545266 2Download 1fichier pixel workupload
2023-03-29 04:00:00
Bach: Flute Sonatas (Bart Kuijken)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Sonatas for Flute & Continuo, BWV 1034, BWV 1032, BWV 1039, BWV 1038, BWV 1030, BWV 1013 & BWV 1035 Bart Kuijken, Marc Hantai-Flutes; Sigiswald Kuijken-Violin; Wieland Kuijken-Cello; Gustav Leonhardt-Harpsichord(Period Instruments)Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 04572-77026-2-RC2 (1989)2-Disc set[Flac & Scans]
2021-12-14 07:35:39
Celebrating the 300th anniversary of their publication in 1720, Bridget Cunningham records Handel's Eight Great Harpsichord Suites
[…] a creative imagination to bring it to performance, and even published works need ornamentation and elaboration. With Bach, though he improvised, his composed works have a greater worked-through element to them, perhaps because there was often a strong didactic element to Bach's art, creating important exemplars.Perhaps for this reason, major keyboard players have not been in a hurry to record Handel's keyboard works. Now the tide seems to be turning, thankfully. Last year, French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï recorded four of Handel's 1720 keyboard suites [see my review], and now Bridget Cunningham has recorded Handel's complete 1720 Suites de Pièces on Signum Classics, along with a selection of the composer's operatic arrangements. Cunningham's two-disc set is issued as part of her continuing Handel series on Signum with her London Early Opera, but the set also celebrates the 300th anniversary of the printing of Handel's Suites de Pièces in November 1720. […]
2021-07-12 06:00:49
Bach’s French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, Pierre Hantaï
In a previous post, we considered the mysterious and melancholy qualities of the key of B minor, especially in the music of J.S. Bach. Perhaps the most monumental example is the B Minor Mass, which Bach completed a year before his death. Something similar can be heard in Bach’s French Suite No. 3 for solo keyboard. The harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï suggests that Bach’s choice of B minor points to solemn music. Music of importance. ...
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