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| 01/08/2006
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| In the summer the focus of much British performance is on festivals rather than concert series, with the BBC Proms having a particular prominence. |
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| 01/08/2006
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing all the 5-star recordings reviewed in each edition of the magazine.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 10 new 5 Star releases from only 120 Euros. |
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| 27/07/2006
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| Marin Marais,(1656-1728) disciple of Lully and a central figure of the school of French composers for the viol at the end of the XVIIth century and beginning of the XVIIIth century, was born in Paris 350 years ago. |
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| 26/07/2006
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| Discussing early music implies, above all, making a declaration of principles. I share the view that music that hasn’t been (or doesn’t need to be) rescued from a forgotten past shouldn’t be considered early music. |
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| 27/07/2006
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| In literature, music and painting there are reference works that have become icons of Western culture over the passage of time. In music, Bach’s B-minor Mass is one of them. In fact, suffice to say simply the B-minor Mass, because it is only necessary to specify that we are not referring to Bach’s Mass when referring to another Mass in the same key (Michelangelo’s David is another paradigmatic example). |
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| 31/07/2006
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| The Lucerne Festival is one of the most important European summer festivals. This year’s symphonic concerts will feature Claudio Abbado and the Festival Orchestra in five concerts featuring soloists including Cecilia Bartoli, Thomas Quasthoff and Maurizio Pollini. |
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| 04/04/2006
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Vivaldi was unjustly forgotten for more than 200 years until when, between 1926 and 1930, 27 volumes of manuscripts which contained totally unknown works, were discovered and brought together at the National University Library of Turin.
Despite this, he still remains an enigma even in the XXth century. Priest and musician, composer and entrepreneur, flamboyant virtuoso and hardworking teacher, insatiable innovator……We still know so little about him.
Here at Goldberg we have put together a pack made up of our magazine number 17 and the 5 Star CD entitled 'The Four Seasons' (by Fabio Biondi and the Ensemble Europa Galante) that will help you to understand the Vivaldi enigma meanwhile you enjoy an excellent version of one of his most renowned masterpieces. |
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| 01/07/2006
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| The baroque violin will be the centre of attention during the fourth early music workshop hosted in the city of Gruyères, Switzerland, by the constructors Pierre Louis and Philippe Mottet-Rio. Two baroque violins will be built during the workshop and subsequently donated to the Freibourg Conservatory. |
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| 31/07/2006
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| English music from the Tudor and Elizabethan periods - Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Dowland - is relatively familiar to early music enthusiasts, but the same cannot be said of 18th century English music, including the work of composers such as Maurice Green, William Boyce, Charles Avison, Thomas Arne, John Stanley, Thomas Linley the younger and Charles Wesley. |
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