Ispirato dai cambiamenti avvenuti nel mondo dopo tre anni di pandemia, questo brano ha il carattere di una preghiera affinché la nostra civiltà esca dalle tenebre e torni alla luce. Vuole ricordare co...
Un'ambientazione rinfrescante e intima delle Preces e delle Risposte in un facile formato SATB: una gradita aggiunta al repertorio dell'Evensong. Emma scrive: "Ho affrontato il testo come una preghier...
Articolato in due parti, questo ciclo di sette canzoni rappresenta una sorta di ritratto musicale di una poetessa americana - molto ammirata da Robert Frost - la cui fama di maestra del verso, e del s...
I dieci mottetti (Concerti sacri) per voce sola, violini e continuo che compongono la sua Op. 3 (1703) sono tra le sue composizioni più attraenti, al confine tra il bel canto seicentesco e le tendenze...
Le ultime tre sinfonie di Mozart furono composte, secondo il Verzeichnüß autografo di Mozart, nell'arco di poche settimane, dalla fine di giugno all'inizio di agosto del 1788. Durante quell'anno l'und...
L'opinione di Stanley Sadie, espressa nel 1963, secondo cui le due delle dodici sonate a tre di Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12-1760), divise equamente tra l'Op. 1 (c.1751) e l'Op. 2 (c.1761), erano...
Le sonate ordinarie per violino costituirono la spina dorsale della serie di dieci raccolte che il violinista italiano Michel Mascitti (1663/4-1760), nato nell'Italia meridionale ma residente stabilme...
Nel 1772 John Addison pubblicò a Edimburgo un volume contenente sei duetti in forma di sonate in tre o quattro movimenti per due violini non accompagnati, le sue uniche opere sopravvissute. Questi due...
Pleyel was one of the most popular and prolific composers in western Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This symphony, composed in 1791, represents a grandiose gesture to his teacher Haydn,...
This set of four works, all in minor keys, is unique for the energy of the fugal writing, the passionate chromaticism of the slow movements and the playful, asymmetrical phrasing of the final Minuets....
The problems of ornamenting a slow movement were as apparent in the 18th century as they are to players today: even Charles Burney admitted that it was an area 'in which performers of great powers of...
Bayo's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. The composer wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to u...
The title and its vast implications attracted me because it agreed with my intuition, pointing me towards music expressing extreme emotional states. I felt, when writing for the piano, it was essentia...
The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...
Double Act has been commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Ensemble 10:10 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first concert of the ensemble. Funds towards the commission have been...
These three quintets from Mozart's Italian contemporary are a joy to play and delightful listening.
The second volume of the complete keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains two unpublished sonatas (one unusually in the key of B flat minor) and his considerable output of 'character pie...
The third and final volume of keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains his four sets of extended keyboard variations, including some impressive displays of virtuosity, and a variety of sh...
The title derives from the French idiom se méfier de l'eau qui dort ('be wary of the water which sleeps'), meaning: be careful, because things are seldom as they appear. The performers should embrace...
Active in Gloucester and Birmingham during the mid-18th century, Barnabas Gunn was a composer and performer of sacred and secular music. His violin sonatas of 1745, here published for the first time i...
The I Ching provides a symmetrical structural base, while Rimbaud's poem 'Barbarian', with its highly emotional imagery, evokes the spatial range and temporal pace of The Clash of Icicles against the...
This anthology celebrates the life and work of Mabel Dolmetsch (1874-1963) on the fiftieth anniversary of her death. It brings together timeless melodies such as Belle qui tiens ma vie and Heartsease,...
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A prayer addressed to Our Lady of Consolation, Memorare evokes images of flight and our basic human need for escape and protection. The subtle colours of Timothy Raymond's musical language and his fin...
The Zhuangzi, a 2000-year-old Daoist text by the Chinese philosopher 'Master Zhuang', is a large collection of anecdotes, allegories and fables, many of them picturesque and of great beauty. Verwandlu...
The present sonata dedicated to Joseph Haydn is a model of classical clarity, and Cramer exploits the full range and sonority of the fortepiano, with exact indications of pedalling and dynamics.
When Zinck's sonatas first appeared in print in 1783, the publication was greeted as exceptional by the best European critics: Their interesting melodic style, highly developed turns of phrase, great...
This sonata, which appeared in print and were well regarded during the composer's lifetime, show him to be a minor master and an eloquent advocate for the eclectic expressive style then current in Ber...