Jean-Baptiste Forqueray News
French composer and violist; son of Antoine Forqueray (1699-1782)
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2022-10-26 06:46:00
The good, the bad and the ugly
Inuit hunters in the Artic regions know they catch most by watching the edges. One example of cultural prey lurking at the edges beyond the reach of groupthink is the CD Call to Prayer. This juxtaposes music from Marin Marais, Antoine Forqueray, and Jean de Sainte-Colombe with classical Arab maqams and Indian Dhrupad ragas. It is the work of respected early music specialist, viol player and Hathor Consort director Romina Lischka and Tunisian mondo-musician, singer, dancer, poet and actress Ghalia Benali, and this very good album has enough edge to satisfy any Intuit hunter. Which is why I am recommending it. Also worth catching is Ghalia Benali's CD Dhrupad Fantasia which interweaves the modality of Indian ragas with the polyphony of Tudor England. Edge of a very different kind is delivered by Moroccan author and painter Mahi Binebin's novel Horses of God. […]
2021-04-15 07:49:05
Now a well-established on-line concert series, Sands Films created The Music Room in their film studio as a response to 2020's lack of performances for artists
[…] Music Club normally takes place on a Thursday night at 8pm, on the Sands Films website, YouTube channel and Facebook page. And the website has plenty of past performances that can be viewed. Coming up: Les voix humaines - 17 April 2021, Musica Antica Rotherhithe in a century of French and Spanish song, interspersed with music for the viola da gamba by three of its masters: Jean de Saint-Colombe, Marin Marais, and Antoine Forqueray. Marlene in Havana - 8 May 2021, music of the 1930's Weimar Republic inspired by the love of exotic Latin settings for films, as well as the tangos, foxtrots, and rhumbas of the 1950's Havana cabaret scene Irlandiani - 13 May 2021, Irish baroque cellist Carina Drury's picture of the musical life of early 18th Century Ireland inspired by her recent album [see my review} which explores the influence of […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-10-11 17:24:00
West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival | Fermata #1 – George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ivor Gurney – Lawrence Power, Vilde Frang, John Myerscough, Pavel Kolesnikov, Tim Crawford, Annabelle Meare, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Timothy Crawford, Timothy Ridout (HD 1080p)
[…] look forward to seeing you in 3D (!) next year for our tenth anniversary... Lawrence Power Artist Director WWCMF George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) / Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) ♪ Sarabande for Violin and Viola [02:10]* Vilde Frang, violin Lawrence Power, viola Vilde and Lawrence In Conversation at the George and Dragon pub Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) ♪ Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts: La Cupis & La Forqueray (1741) [14:20] Lawrence Power, violin John Myerscough, cello Pavel Kolesnikov, piano Intermission: Lawrence Power, John Myerscough and Pavel Kolesnikov chat Recap from the 2019 Festival: Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) ♪ Piano Quintet No.1 (1952) [28:15] i. Moderato molto espressivo ii. Presto iii. Grave iv. Con passione Tim Crawford, violin Annabelle Meare, violin Lawrence Power, viola John Myerscough, cello Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano ✻ […]
2020-05-21 09:06:28
I am going to fill up this space with video recordings of Forqueray’s first suite in D-minor.
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