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English music historian (1726-1814)
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Charles Burney)
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- composer, organist, historian, musicologist, music historian, harpsichordist, writer
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2023-12-07 16:05:28
(Prima Classics)Historian Charles Burney’s surveys of the state of 18th-century European music link this spirited anthology from the period performance group
2023-11-14 08:54:00
Engagement, exploration & discovery: London Handel Players return to Handel at Home for Total Eclipse
[…] his larger scale works. In the arias, Rachel Brown makes a lovely protagonist, and yet again we don't think so much about the original, this version is engaging in its own right. William Babell, a direct contemporary of Handel, published a set of harpsichord arrangements of Handel arias in a volume entitled Suits of the Most Celebrated Lessons in 1717. His version of 'Lascia ch’io pianga' from Rinaldo is altered and elaborated, and whilst Charles Burney was dismissive of Babell's talents, these harpsichord versions give us one view of the 18th century's approach to ornamenting arias. On the disc, Silas Wollston makes his own transcription and then gradually moves into Babel's version. The result is charming and rather fun. Wollston's playing is brilliant and you cannot but help smile at the elaborations.Handel's Sonata a 5 in B-flat major (HWV 288) was written in Rome in 1707 and features one of […]
2023-09-13 12:56:00
Celebrating one of King's Lynn's most distinguished residents: the Charles Burney Early Music weekend returns
Charles Burney by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781Following the success of the annual Early Music Days in King's Lynn in July and the inaugural Charles Burney Early Music weekend in 2022, the second Charles Burney Early Music Festival returns to King's Lynn from 29 September to 1 October 2023. The festival celebrates the life of one of King's Lynn's most distinguished residents, the traveller and writer Charles Burney who was organist at St Margaret's Church (now King's Lynn Minster) for almost 10 years in the middle of the 18th century.The festival opens with Apollo's Cabinet in Charles Burney, Baroque Travel Blogger, a musical voyage following Burney on his journey: a kaleidoscope of European Baroque music with compositions from each of the countries he visited, some famous, others seldom heard, interspersed with readings of his original 18th century diary entries. And the concert will also celebrate the ensemble's release of a CD of the […]
2022-02-01 20:16:00
[…] and large a thoughtful and compelling musical performance, with some utterly ravishing woodwind playing in particular. And what a joy not to have to endure Handel with toothpaste-squeezing strings! What a joy, moreover, to be treated to such a cast of Handel singers, who of course contributed greatly to much of what I have said above. Julia Bullock’s patient strength and unshowy sincerity seemed to me just the ticket for Theodora. Charles Burney described her predecessor, Giulia Frasi, a few years earlier as having for Handel ‘a clear and sweet voice, free from defects, and a smooth and chaste style of singing; which, though cold and unimpassioned, pleased natural ears, and escaped the censure of critics.’ Doubtless that meant something different then from what it would now, but I sensed, however fancifully, a dialogue between our two Theodoras, in the broader spirit of what we saw and […]
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