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English composer and organist (1711-1779)
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2024-03-29
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2024-01-24 12:00:00
John Dante Prevedini recommends song cycles by contemporary American composer Douglas Boyce. '... an unusual vision bravely conceived and sensitively executed by all involved.'
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-01 21:24:25
Soprano Sonja Tengblad and trumpeter Justin Bland brightened BB’s celebratory evening of Handel, Boyce, Biber, and Bach at GBH’s Calderwood Studio last night. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-10-23 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 62 (CD Reviews)
[…] is joined by cellist Coleman Itzkoff both for the second track, Pärt’s Fratres, and in a bit of symmetry, in the sixth (and next-to-last) track, Vasks’s Castillo Interior. On the final track, Pärt’s simply constructed but nonetheless haunting Spiegel im Spiegel, Gajić is joined by violinist YuEun Kim. Contributing to the deep beauty of the album is the purity of its sound, which was engineered by Daniel Shore and Erica Brenner at the Sono Luminus Studios in Boyce, Virginia, where it was mixed and mastered using Legacy Audio speakers (the same speakers Bill Heck and I use for reviews). Sonic Alchemy is a marvelous album of chamber music, an appealing blend of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, impeccably performed and recorded.
2023-09-11 13:54:48
From Renaissance to Baroque. 2023
[…] the best orchestra in Europe and developing, unknowingly, the style that would bring us, several decades later, the symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. The “not-so-greats” leading the way, leaving the greats behind but paving the way for a new generation of supreme talents… Yet again we don’t have the time to properly acknowledge the composers born this week (among them are Arnold Schoenberg and Girolamo Frescobaldi, and also Arvo Pärt, Clara Schumann and William Boyce, who, like Beethoven, went deaf but continued, for a while, to compose and play the organ). We wanted to go back a month and commemorate some of the composers born during that time: too many to mention, but two of them, Henry Purcell and Antonin Dvorak, were born last week. And of course, we’ve missed a lot of performers and conductors, among whom were the pianists Aldo Ciccolini and Maria Yudina, Ginette Neveu (violin) […]
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