Frankly, my dear, it's too pretty -- and while Stravinsky's Les Noces is many things, it's not pretty. It's belligerently uncompromising in its abrasive choral writing, it's aggressively brilliant in its glittering score for four pianos and percussion, and it's powerfully propulsive in its driving polyrhythms. But it's not pretty -- and this ...
The Lübecker Abendmusik named in the title of this disc was a concert series, held in the Marienkirche, backed by the merchants of the prosperous north German city of Lübeck in the late seventeenth century, and furnished with music by Buxtehude, and before him Franz Tunder. Buxtehude apparently also wrote some full-scale oratorios for these events ...
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