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2023-08-18 09:43:00
The International Conducting Competition Rotterdam is now excited to announce the details of the next competition, which will take place in 2024 and 2025 in de Doelen, Rotterdam
ICCR offers talented conductors the opportunity to work with several top orchestras, including in 2025 the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Klangforum Wien, Sinfonia Rotterdam and Laurens Symphony Chorus. The competition comprises five separate rounds with various themes, ranging from classical to contemporary, from opera to great symphonic works. This gives […]
2018-11-10 00:00:00
Couperin le Grand born 350 years ago
[…] gamba; Davitt Moroney, organrecorded: August 1984Label: Harmonia mundi HMA 1901150Download François Couperin Messe pour les Paroisses Messe pour les Couvents Adriano Falcione - organ Gruppo Vocale Armoniosoincanto Franco Radicchia - direction Label: Brilliant Classics 94333 (2CD) Recorded February/March 2012 Download François CouperinPièces de ClavecinJoseph Payne - harpsichordLabel: BIS CD-559Recorded February 1992Download François Couperin Leçons de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint, Motet pour le Jour de Pâques, Magnificat Mieke van der Sluis, soprano; Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Marianne Muller, viola da gamba; Pascal Monteilhet, theorbo; Laurence Boulay, harpsichord, organ recorded: March 1988 Label: Erato 245 012-2 Download
2018-08-09 17:12:00
Anglais - William Christie, the Sun King of Baroque Opera
Quite a daring choice for a young American musician in the 1970s to consider a career as a harpsichordist! Nevertheless, this was indeed the choice of William Christie, notably taught by Ralf Kirkpatrick and Kenneth Gilbert; but his true path lay elsewhere: the few recordings show a soloist who was much less talented than his compatriot Scott Ross or his protégé Christophe Rousset. The small ensemble that he created in 1979, Les Arts Florissants, was originally a profoundly collective venture, jointly created by numerous instrumentalists and singers, including Dominique Visse, Guillemette Laurens and Agnès Mellon. Over time, it became much more centred around the persona of Christie himself, an evolution that aroused understandable resentment, but such is the way of things - the media industry is hungry for celebrities, and the big projects that could be funded by the growing reputation of the ensemble needed a conductor, in every sense of […]
2018-06-08 23:00:00
Charpentier Le maladie imaginaire Minkowski
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)Le maladie imaginairePrologue & Intermèdes 1re version 1673Poulenard, Feldman, Laurens, Ragon, FouchécourtLes Musiciens du LouvreMarc MinkowskiErato 245 002-2 (flacs & scans)DownloadThanks to JR for scans since my copyonly had cd covers.
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