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Franco-Flemish composer
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2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] quiet and crisp versus the vivid and strong. This was high energy Mozart, played as if their life depended on it, with terrific discipline and unanimity of purpose. Frankly, it wasn't quite to my taste but you could not help but admire the performance and the musicianship that went into it.Britten Sinfonia returns to Milton Court on 11 May when they are joined by The Marrian Consort for a programme that mixes Gesualdo, Lusitano and Binchois with Brett Dean and Lisa Illean. Then in June the ensemble's Bach concerto odyssey with Mahan Esfahani continues.Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed […]
2024-01-18 05:00:00
Dufay & The Court of Savoy
Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)"Dufay & the Court of Savoy"Introit, Missa, MotetsThe Binchois Consort/Andrew KirkmanRecorded February 2008Label: Hyperion CDA67715Download 1fichier pixel workupload(Dufay died 550 years ago)Courtesy of member Thomas Cadfael
2022-08-01 14:57:24
Rott and Power, 2022
[…] Cologne, one of the two major Cologne orchestras, under the direction of Christopher Ward and contains practically all of Rott’s symphonic music. This week is also a putative anniversary of Guillaume Dufay, who, according to some research was born on August 5th of 1397. We’ve written about this very important composer on a number of occasions (for example, here about his extensive travels around Europe). We’ve also written about his contemporary, another Franco-Flemish composer, Gilles Binchois (Dufay and Binchois were born about 25 miles from each other, the former in Beersel, the latter in Mons, both in modern day Belgium). Antoine Busnois ,who was a generation younger, is usually considered the third of the most consequential Franco-Flemish composers of the mid-15th century. The Franco-Flemish school was one of the two dominant music schools of the time, the other being developed in England (notice the absence of the Italians). Two English […]
2022-01-10 16:43:54
Antoine Brumel, 2022
[…] dedicated to Feldman’s childhood piano teacher. It’s whimsical, somewhat unusual for Feldman and quite innocuous. John Adams conducts the Orchestra of St. Lukes. We’ll use this quiet week to “discover” Antoine Brumel, a French composer who was born sometime around 1460 probably in Brunelles, not far from Chartres. His is one of a few French composers who were part of the Franco-Flemish (Burgundian) school, the rest of them being mostly Flemish, like Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois or Johannes Ockeghem. As usual for composers of the 15th century, we don’t know much about his life. Here’s what we do know: he sang at the famous Chartres Cathedral, then moved to Geneva where he stayed for several years, became a canon and served in Laon, and then became the choirmaster at the Notre Dame de Paris. In 1506 he moved to Italy to the court of Alfonso I d'Este in Ferrara where […]
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