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French organist and composer (1674-1751)
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2021-06-28 08:37:13
Talking to us through the music: Rachel Podger in a programme of music for unaccompanied violin by Bach at Kings Place
Rachel Podger - Kings Place (Photo Monika S Jakubowska/Kings Place) Bach Music for unaccompanied violin; Rachel Podger; Kings Place Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 25 June 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Rachel Podger was wonderfully eloquent in a programme combining Bach's music for unaccompanied violin with a transcription of one of the cello suitesA woman, a violin, a full audience (socially-distanced) and the music of Bach. Violinist Rachel Podger opened Kings Place's Bach Weekend on Friday 25 June 2021 with a programme of Bach's unaccompanied instrumental music, the Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin, BWV 1003, the Partita No. 2in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004 and in between them the Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV 1009 transposed into G major for violin. We are lucky that Bach's autograph for the Sonata and Partitas for solo violin survives, created […]
2020-05-30 08:23:04
Thaïs: Massenet's lyric drama gets a rare outing on disc in a stylish performance with Canadian forces conducted by Sir Andrew Davis
[…] American soprano Sybil Sanderson (1864-1903) [Her obituary in the 1903 New York Times]. She had had great success at the Paris Opera with Esclarmonde (in 1889) and by 1894 was singing Manon at the Opera Comique. The intention was the Thaïs should be relatively small scale. Massenet's fortunes in Paris at the time were somewhat mixed, he had failed to get Werther on (it was premiered in Vienna in 1892), and his grand opera La Mage had failed at the Paris Opera in 1891. In fact, he was moving away from pure grand opera in the mould of Le Roi de Lahore (of 1877) to lyric drama. But, Sybil Sanderson was tempted away from the Opera Comique back to the Paris Opera by a lucrative contract, so Thaïs had to be expanded. Its fortunes after its premiere in 1894 were mixed, but Massenet revised it in 1898 (expanding Act […]
2019-02-11 14:00:37
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2017-01-07 01:10:00
Works of Sweelinck, van Dalem and others Berry van Berkum, Severijn organ, Cuijk Works of Pachelbel, Arne, Kirchner and others Kees van Eersel, Marcussen organ, Goes Messiaen - La Nativité du Seigneur Charles de Wolff, Schijven organ, Laeken Improvisations in French and German style Henco de Berg, Müller organ, Haarlem Organ works of Sweelinck, Böhm, Frescobaldi,van Dalem, Du Mage, Buxtehude and others Berry van Berkum - organistWillem de Vries - baritonSeverijn organ, ca. 1630 (meantone voiced)Martinuskerk - CuijkLabel: Toccata Records TRR 9908Recorded July 2002[Flacs & scans]Download Organ works of Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Krebs, Rinck, Arne, Wesley, Kirchner and others Kees van Eersel - organist Daekens/Marcussen organ, 1641/1970 Maria-Magdalenakerk - Goes Label: Jubal CD ZV 91137-2 Recorded June 1991 [Flacs & scans] Download Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)La Nativité du SeigneurNeuf méditations pour orgue Charles de Wolff - organistSchijven orag, 1874Eglise Notre Dame de […]
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