Mari Samuelsen performs Vivaldi’s Summer
Antonio Vivaldi – Summer from four seasons performed by Mari Samuelsen
Top 10 Bach recordings from Gramophone
Here are 10 works by Bach that are essential listening: No 1 Orchestral Suites Ensemble Sonnerie / Monica Huggett ‘“Orchestral Suites for a young prince” is what this release advertises,…
Handel, Alceste, Chandos Recordings
Handel never performed his music for Alceste, he characteristically found plenty of practical uses for it. He adapted several sinfonias, choruses, and arias to form the majority of the music for…
Marquis Classics: Homage to the Old Master-Sonatas for Keyboard, Anya Alexeyev plays Carlos Seixas.
Carlos Seixas (1704 – 1742) was an eminent Portuguese composer. He succeeded his father as organist in 1718 at age fourteen, From then he dazzled listeners with brilliant keyboard skills, and his creative…
Italian Baroque composer TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI
TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI (1671 – 1751) A contemporary of Vivaldi in Venice, Albinoni claimed to have written some 80 operas (which are now generally neglected) and a variety of instrumental…
BBC Radio 3 has unveiled a month of programming to celebrate ‘Baroque Spring’
BBC Radio 3 has unveiled a month of programming to celebrate all things Baroque.Baroque Spring will run for a month from 3 March and encompass live performance, drama, comedy and a…
Gramophone Awards 2012:Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien featuring Vox Luminis directed by Lionel Meunier.
Schütz’s Musicalische Exequienfrom 1636 and Bach’s Trauer Ode a century later attest.These qualities are rendered with a delicious, ruminative prayerfulness and unforced rhetoric by Lionel Meunier’s Vox Luminis. Listen to ‘Ach wie elend…