The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, according to the liner notes of this album, plays "according to the principles of historical performance-practice on modern instruments and so can meet the needs of modern concert halls." This is nonsense, sloppily expressed (do concert halls have needs? desires maybe?). Performances by historical-instrument groups ...
René Jacobs is an acknowledged master of informed period performance practice, and he turns his considerable arsenal of research, insight, and experience to Don Giovanni, which he maintains has become so mired in misguided nineteenth century interpretive traditions that most modern performances badly misrepresent Mozart's intentions. He points out ...
René Jacobs is an acknowledged master of informed period performance practice, and he turns his considerable arsenal of research, insight, and experience to Don Giovanni, which he maintains has become so mired in misguided nineteenth century interpretive traditions that most modern performances badly misrepresent Mozart's intentions. He points out ...
The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, according to the liner notes of this album, plays "according to the principles of historical performance-practice on modern instruments and so can meet the needs of modern concert halls." This is nonsense, sloppily expressed (do concert halls have needs? desires maybe?). Performances by historical-instrument groups ...
La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart's final Italian opera, was composed in a hurried 18 days for the coronation of Leopold II in September 1791. In presenting Leopold, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, with an opera about Titus, the Emperor of the Pagan Roman Empire, Mozart was not so subliminally advising the current Emperor to emulate the actions of ...
Harmonia Mundi's Cantatas pour les Esterházy, featuring Andreas Spering, the VokalEnsemble Köln, and the Capella Coloniensis of the WDR, addresses a neglected part of Haydn's output: the early cantatas Haydn composed for Prince Nicolaus I's court. At the time Haydn assumed the post of vice kapellmeister at the Esterházy estate in 1761, he had only ...
In place of the usual jumbled compilation discs, Harmonia Mundi has collected some of its recent Haydn releases into something entirely new: a survey of Haydn's career, in Spanish and English, contained in a hardbound 80-page booket with numerous full-color artworks from Haydn's time and other illustrations. The writing by Charles Johnston is ...
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