Full of fire, spirit, and life”: this description of the Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveček’s character was made by none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his younger contemporary. Mysliveček (1737-1781) spent his entire career in Italy and committed himself to the life of a freelance composer: he obstinately refused to accept any type of employment in permanent service. Not only did he...
Diep berouw en het verlangen naar goddelijke verlossing zijn twee van de centrale thema's in de cantates van de Noord-Duitse barokcomponisten. Griet De Geyter en Il Gardellino selecteerden drie voorbeeldige werken uit het genre van Dieterich Buxtehude, Georg Philipp Telemann en Johann Sebastian Bach, met bijzondere nadruk op de duidelijk gedirigeerde stem en de frappante expressiviteit van de...
Artist(s):Ensemble Européen William Byrd - Graham O'Reilly,musical director - Yannick Varlet, organ Composer:Carissimi, Marazzoli,Quagliati, Rossi, Frescobaldi
Full of fire, spirit, and life”: this description of the Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveček’s character was made by none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his younger contemporary. Mysliveček (1737-1781) spent his entire career in Italy and committed himself to the life of a freelance composer: he obstinately refused to accept any type of employment in permanent service. Not only did he...
Wenen. 1803. De Afro-Europese violist George Bridgetower maakt furore met zijn virtuositeit en fascineert Beethoven die voor zijn unieke en exotische karakter een duivelse en prachtige sonate schrijft. Ondanks het enorme succes van de première uitgevoerd door Bridgetower en Beethoven, leidt een ongelukkige opmerking van de violist over een vriendin van de componist ertoe dat de beroemde sonate...
Tartini was a major personality of his period, a virtuoso violinist, a prolific composer, an excellent teacher. His main objective was singularly clear: to train, to master and summon as often as possible the small something that moves the listener on hearing music; the moment we can hear another thousand times, and which will have the same effect on us each time. Tartini termed this la verità...
