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| 07/09/2006
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| The Musicians Benevolent Fund is delighted to announce that this year’s Festival of Saint Cecilia will be held on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd November. Each year, the Festival takes place on or near 22nd November, Saint Cecilia’s Day, as a celebration and thanksgiving for music and musicians. |
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| 12/09/2006
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| The Brighton Festival is one of the most consolidated and attractive early-music festivals in the United Kingdom. This year, the Festival has taken the music of the Iberian Peninsula and the New World as a reference under the title 'Voyages of Discovery'. |
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| 04/09/2006
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| The last word in Haydn Studies goes to the composer Robin Holloway, whose essay 'Haydn: the Musicians’ Musician' ends on an upbeat flourish: But Haydn is the music of the future still. The true extent of his greatness is for the connoisseur a well-kept secret, for the larger public a ticking time-bomb that has yet to go off. When its hour comes the explosion, rather than a Big Bang, will be a still small voice telling of the strange within the normal, the vast within the modest, the dark within the bright and vice versa: the essence of human experience in essentially musical terms. |
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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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| 06/07/2006
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| If there is one neglected work among Mozart’s mature operas, it is La Clemenza di Tito. Its weaknesses have been seen in its long recitatives, which were not composed by Mozart but probably by his pupil Süssmayr, and in its use of a reworked Metastasio libretto, considered out of date at the time of the premiere. |
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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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| 08/09/2006
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| The works on this disc span 20 years of Vivaldi’s career as an opera composer, from the overture of Arsilda (1716) to the sinfonia that opens Griselda (1735). Also included are two of Vivaldi’s string sinfonias RV 112 and 137, which the ensemble’s director, Stefano Molardi, argues in his scholarly booklet notes were originally the overtures to Orlando finto pazzo and another unknown stage work. |
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| 13/09/2006
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| The Utrecht Early Music Exhibition, which took place between 1st and 3rd of this month, was a complete success for Goldberg and for the many other exhibitors that took part. |
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