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British opera singer and actor (1865-1935)
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Bach: Solo Organ Concerti (Anthony Newman)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Six Solo Organ Concerti based on Concerti by Vivaldi & PrinzJohann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, BWV 592-596Fantasia in G major, BWV 572Anthony Newman, Rieger Organ, Holy Trinity Episcopal ChurchNew York City(Modern Organ)Newport Classic NCD 60071 (1989)[Flac & Scans]
2022-09-29 04:00:00
Violin Concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann & Ernst (Stanley Ritchie, Joshua Rifkin, The Bach Ensemble)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 7 No. 5, RV 208aJohann Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Weimar (1696-1715)Violin Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 1 No. 1Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Violin Concerto in G minor, TWV 51-g1Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)Violin Concerto in D minor (after BWV 1052)Stanley Ritchie, ViolinJoshua Rifkin, The Bach Ensemble (Period Instruments)Decca L'Oiseau Lyre 421 442-2 [Flac & Scans]
2022-07-23 09:04:00
Prom 10: BBC Concert Orchestra/Wordsworth - ‘Music for Royal Occasions’, 22 July 2022
[…] again makes a sort of grimly apt sense.) Here the clash with the BBC Singers seemed strangest, a mismatch that certainly did not reflect badly on them. What empty, shop-worn rhetoric, and to what end? Pierre Boulez once referred to Shostakovich’s music by way of an olive-oil metaphor: a third pressing of Mahler. This sounded like a fifth of an already bowdlerised Victorian-Edwardian Brahms. It was as dull as ditchwater. All hail the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor.
2022-04-26 07:59:25
The intriguing tale of what came next: Steven Devine explores the music of Bach's talented pupil, Johann Ludwig Krebs
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) - Keyboard works, volumes 1 & 2; Steven Devine; Resonus ClassicsReviewed 25 April 2022, (★★★★) The music of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's finest pupils reveals itself to be stylistically diverse and intriguing, and receives powerful advocacy from Steven Devine If you have heard the name Johann Ludwig Krebs before it is probably as a footnote; he was one of Johann Sebastian Bach's pupils. Born into a musical family (his father also studied with Bach), Krebs was sent to Leipzig to study, including with Bach. As regards organ playing, Krebs was unrivalled next to Bach, yet he never managed to achieve a significant post, having to content himself with engagements at smaller courts. For the final 14 years of his life he was court organist at Altenburg (home of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, one of the rather confusing group of Saxon duchies that kept being subdivided and combined). […]
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