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| 01/04/2007
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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 9 new 5 Star releases from only 110 Euros. |
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| 02/04/2007
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| The Goldberg Foundation, recently created with a view to encouraging new initiatives in the rediscovery, promotion, dissemination and reappraisal of the classical music heritage, has instituted an annual prize for the best contributions in the research and dissemination of early music and its history. |
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| 13/04/2007
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| Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) is the most important German composer between Schütz and J. S. Bach and the best representative of the German-Danish musical culture of the Baltic Sea, which was at its peak at the time. His output doesn’t bear the stamp of a genius, thanks to which the great composers took the style of their time to its highest level of perfection, but that of a musical culture that far exceeded the limits of mere craftsmanship. |
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| 30/04/2007
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6 to 10 June.
This year’s Stockholm Early Music Festival, held in the exceptional setting of the historic Old Town, focuses on French artists. In addition to its five main concerts, the festival offers an interesting range of parallel educational activities designed with children in mind. |
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| 30/04/2007
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| The Ensemble Organum is one of those small ensembles specialising in the performance of early music that have succeeded in creating its own sound, which is both distinctive and convincing in regard to its hypothetical historical veracity. |
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| 02/05/2007
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| Don’t be fooled by the packaging, a piece of cardboard folded over to make two loose pockets containing the booklet and plastic-wrapped disc, with an ugly cover illustration straight from a 1960s budget LP. Both the music and performances are excellent. |
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| 03/05/2007
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| Words are often a pretext for quite surprising ambiguities. Such is the case in the Conversations Galantes et Amusantes written by Louis-Gabriel Guillemain who, as the excellent liner notes explain, was a major exponent of the galant style in eighteenth century France. |
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| 04/05/2007
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22 June to 8 July.
This year the 56th Granada International Music and Dance Festival explores the relations between Spain and France in its program 'Spaniards in Paris'. The festival, which includes as many as 37 concerts, now includes early music and is articulated around a symposium titled 'Musical Relations between France and Spain from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century'. |
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| 04/05/2007
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| It is always satisfying to rediscover composers, who, despite being left in the shadows of more important composers of their time, nevertheless provide us with the opportunity to enjoy small musical gems. This is the case with Giles Farnaby (c. 1563-1640). |
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| 04/05/2007
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27 July to 5 August.
The Ansbach Bach Week is the longest-standing music festival devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach and his music still to be held in its original location. The origins of the festival date back to 1947, when music-lovers first gathered in central Franconia in southern Germany to enjoy works by the composer. |
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