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Austrian composer and musician
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2023-08-03 04:00:00
Schmelzer: Violin Sonatas (Romanesca)
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620-1680)Sonatae unarum fidium (Sonatas Nos. 1-6)Violin Sonata ''Cucu'' Violin Sonata in A minor ''Victori der Christen'' Andrew Manze, ViolinNigel North, Lute & TheorboJohn Toll, Harpsichord & OrganRomanesca(Period Instruments)Harmonia Mundi France HMU 907143 (0996)[Flac & Scans]
2021-10-30 04:44:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 30, 2021
[…] houses around the world in the leading roles, including baritone Dimitri Platanias, soprano Cellia Costea, baritone Dionysios Sourbis, soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, and mezzo-soprano Miranda Makrynioti. They are joined by young Greek singers, part of the company’s commitment to supporting up and coming Greek artists.For details, visit https://tv.nationalopera.gr/en/opera/le-nozze-di-figaro/For a preview, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpeja0Y0NpE--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman AssociatesStylus Phantasticus!This Week's Video from American Bach Soloist's YouTube Series is "The Baroque Experience." Musical Riches from an Austrian Dynasty, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s (circa 1623–1680) Sonata IX S 43 from Duodena selactarum sonatarum (1659), featuring Cynthia Keiko Black, violin; William Skeen, viola da gamba; Steven Lehning, violone; and Corey Jamason, harpsichord.There are no explicit tempo indications, but, very much in the Stylus Phantasticus style of the time, performers had freedom to express the music as if it were being improvised.Watch and listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx21AvWkSu0--American Bach SoloistsCramer Quartet in the World Premiere of the Seven Last Words ProjectFive Boroughs Music […]
2021-10-30 04:44:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 30, 2021
[…] houses around the world in the leading roles, including baritone Dimitri Platanias, soprano Cellia Costea, baritone Dionysios Sourbis, soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, and mezzo-soprano Miranda Makrynioti. They are joined by young Greek singers, part of the company’s commitment to supporting up and coming Greek artists.For details, visit https://tv.nationalopera.gr/en/opera/le-nozze-di-figaro/For a preview, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpeja0Y0NpE--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman AssociatesStylus Phantasticus!This Week's Video from American Bach Soloist's YouTube Series is "The Baroque Experience." Musical Riches from an Austrian Dynasty, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s (circa 1623–1680) Sonata IX S 43 from Duodena selactarum sonatarum (1659), featuring Cynthia Keiko Black, violin; William Skeen, viola da gamba; Steven Lehning, violone; and Corey Jamason, harpsichord.There are no explicit tempo indications, but, very much in the Stylus Phantasticus style of the time, performers had freedom to express the music as if it were being improvised.Watch and listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx21AvWkSu0--American Bach SoloistsCramer Quartet in the World Premiere of the Seven Last Words ProjectFive Boroughs Music […]
2021-10-11 04:42:00
Stylus Phantasticus (CD review)
[…] did provide for a richer expression of musical interests before the concerto and the symphony would tie things down again.Anyway, the program is as follows: 1. Carlo Farina (1600–1639):“Sonata Seconda detta la Desperata” 2. Giovanni de Macque (1550–1614):“Toccata” 3. Marco Uccellini (1603–1680):“La Luciminia contenta,” Op. 4 No. 2 4. Francesco Corbetta (1615–1681):“Partite sopra La Folia” 5. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1630–1669/70):“La Castella,” Op. 3 No. 4 6. Giovanni Battista Fontana (?-1630):“Sonata Seconda” 7. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704):“Sonata Prima” 8. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620–1680):“Ciaconna in A” from Serenada in Mascara 9. Ignazio Albertini (1633–1685):“Sonata Prima for violin and continuo”10. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620–1680):“Sonata Seconda” from Sonatæ unarum fidium11. Schmelzer:“Sonata Quarta” from Sonatæ unarum fidiumAs you might notice, the compositions follow a pattern of earliest to later music, with the earlier ones a bit less ornate. The Carlo Farina sonata, for instance, is almost sedate in its execution. Its subtitle, “detta la Desperata,” translates as “called the despairing,” an […]
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