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| The first prize in the 1st Goldberg Musical Essay Competition, which attracted more than two hundred entries in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian, has been won by Benjamin Narvey’s “Robert de Visée’s Musical Gravestones: The End of Grandeur & the Death of the French Lute”. |
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| 01/02/2008
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing 5-star recordings selected by our editor and reviewed in this issue.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 6 new 5 Star releases from only 90 Euros. |
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| 25/02/2008
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2 to 13 May 2008.
This year’s International Handel Festival Göttingen, which will take place in and around Göttingen from 2 to 13 May 2008, will focus on the theme 'Orpheus Britannicus–Handel in England'. The main event of the Festival’s varied programming will be Handel’s opera Orlando under the direction of Nicholas McGegan, the artistic director of the Festival. |
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| 27/02/2008
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| This is an unadulterated joy. Sémélé was the last of Marais’ tragédie lyriques, first given at the Paris Opéra in April 1709. For reasons that are not clear it failed to repeat the success of Alcyone (1706) and has since lain dormant, in part because the inner string parts were missing. |
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| 03/03/2008
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9 to 12 May 2008.
For more than 900 years the great Benedictine abbey perched above the Danube at Melk has been a seat of learning and culture. Each year at Whitsun Melk Abbey hosts a festival of baroque music, presently under the directorship of Professor Helmut Pilss. |
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| 29/02/2008
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| Les Muffatti’s first CD, devoted to Muffat’s Armonico Tributo, deservedly received a rapturous reception from William Yeoman in Goldberg 39. Its second is arguably even more significant, for not only does it confirm the Belgian ensemble as a quite exceptional body, but it also introduces us to some splendid music by a neglected composer. |
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| 05/03/2008
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21 May to 4 June 2008.
Although the Bergen International Festival is a wide-ranging event covering both music and theatre from all periods, the presence at this year’s festival of Norwegian baroque violinist Bjarte Eike as Musician in Residence ensures plenty of interest for early music devotees. |
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| 01/12/2007
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing 5-star recordings selected by our editor and reviewed in this issue.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 10 new 5 Star releases (6 + box set) from only 110 Euros. |
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