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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Female Composers – Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) Violin Riccardo Masahide Minasi Harpsicord Salvatore Carchiolo (by Opus111-Naive) ——— Tempi 1. Presto 2. Adagio (1’25) 3. Presto (2’50) 4. Presto (4’25)
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – A. Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in A minor, RV 461
Allegro non molto: 0:00 Larghetto: 4:09 Allegro: 6:40 Oboe: Alfredo Bernardini Violin I: Meelis Orgse, Annie Gard, Marina Kakuno Violin II: Anna Stankiewicz, Lina Manrique, Amy Shen Viola: Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta, Alice Vaz Basso continuo: Nadine Remmert, Néstor Fabián Cortés Garzón, Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sánchez, Eva Euwe Camera:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Documentary – Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) was a genius and was celebrated during his lifetime – but to this day, he remains in the shadow of Mozart and Beethoven. Maybe that is because he lived a life without scandal or financial difficulties, so he did not fit the later picture of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Biffi – Amante moribondo
Johann Sebastian Bach may have been the greatest composer ever, but he, too, had to learn the trade. And that meant reading and copying music, and playing endlessly on as many instruments as possible. Bach was extremely curious and from an early age he was already open to a great
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Baroque Interlude – Bach – Easter Oratorio: Kommt, eilet und laufet BWV 249
How could I not? 🙂 The Netherlands Bach Society performs ‘Kommt, eilet und laufet’ for All of Bach. This Oster-Oratorium (Easter oratorio) was first performed on Easter Sunday in 1725. Two days earlier, the congregation in Leipzig had listened to the St John Passion, just as in 1724. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – “La Stravaganza” Concerto no.2 in E minor, RV 279
La stravaganza [literally ‘Extravagance’] (The Eccentricity), Op. 4, is a set of concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1712–1713. The set was first published in 1716 in Amsterdam and was dedicated to Venetian nobleman Vettor Delfino,[1] who had been a violin student of Vivaldi’s.[2] All of the concertos are scored
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach – Cantata Die Elenden sollen essen BWV 75
Bach’s cantata ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, broke the ice in his new post. At last, his appointment as cantor in Leipzig had been finalised and he had moved with his family from Köthen to Leipzig on 22 May 1723. And
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Da Pachem Domine – Arvo Part
A repost because humanity has decided to revisit our base nature and bring ruin to the lives of others, for important reasons. Give peace, O Lord, in our time Because there is no one else Who fights for us If not You, our God.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Palestrina – Sicut cervus
Sicut cervus is a motet for four voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the Psalterium Romanum rather than the Vulgate Bible. The incipit is “Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes” (As the deer desires the fountains) followed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Christmas Interlude – Mass in G minor BWV 235
The Mass in G minor, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, derives its opening from cantata 102, while the other two choruses and three arias are taken from cantatas 187 and 72. Bach probably wrote this and three other ‘Lutheran’ masses to create a safe haven
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Piano Interlude – Sonatina in A Minor – Benda
I like this piece. Going to start working it up.
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