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| 08/08/2006
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| One of the frustrations of musical life is when a really interesting concert that you are not free to attend is on the horizon. That made me rather sensitive to the mounting excitement at the impending UK debut of the Bach Collegium Japan at the end of May, when they performed Bach’s B Minor Mass at London’s Barbican centre. |
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| 07/08/2006
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| The 2006 Early Music Weekend (15-17 September) explores the theme of the diverse sources of inspiration for music making. Composers throughout the ages have been inspired to write music by experiences taken from literature and art, nature and death, politics and war, religion and love. Today’s composers have also drawn inspiration from the music of the past, combining the old with the new, and filtering earlier repertoires through modern perspectives. |
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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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| 06/08/2006
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| The reviewer of CDs of organ music may at times find it hard to receive yet another ‘Bach’ recording. The catalogue of J.S. Bach CDs is indeed so enormous, there have been so many ‘complete works’ recorded on so many beautiful instruments, not to mention the constant stream of separate recordings of ‘Bach recitals’, that it is a little tiresome sometimes to listen to these time-hallowed pieces for the umpteenth time - if they are performed indifferently, that is. |
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| 04/08/2006
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| Before their appearance at the Proms, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Sussex, playing for performances of Handel’s Giulio Cesare between 5 August and 26 August, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, with David Daniels in the title role and Danielle de Niese as his lover, Cleopatra. |
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| 07/06/2006
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| Boccherini’s Spanish qualities were adopted ones. Like Domenico Scarlatti, he found the Spanish climate particularly well suited to his musical development, and his debt to Spain is the theme of Le Concert des Nations’ new album. Its conductor, Jordi Savall, is intuitively familiar with these relationships, and instinctively understands their significance. |
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| 09/08/2006
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| Since 1927 the Salle Pleyel of Paris has been one of the most important concert halls in classical music programming. In its close to 80-year history, it has been associated with some of the greatest names in music, from Falla to Stravinsky, as well as great French composers including Franck, Dukas, Debussy and Ravel. |
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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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