Edition Walhall – April 2015
Catena Sammlung (Mus. ms. Landsberg 122-Berlin). Intavolatura mit Werken von Frescobaldi, Tarditi u. a. für Orgel (oder Cembalo). (Frutti Musicali
Read moreCatena Sammlung (Mus. ms. Landsberg 122-Berlin). Intavolatura mit Werken von Frescobaldi, Tarditi u. a. für Orgel (oder Cembalo). (Frutti Musicali
Read moreJ. S. Bach: Invention und Sinfonien… edited by Ullrich Scheideler… HN 589. ix + 91pp, €18.00. [HN 590 clothbound, HN
Read moreRed Priest albums are always stylish, entertaining and controversial, and this one is no exception. It took me a little while to become accustomed to the sound world of Red Priest – recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord – as applied to Handel’s Messiah but I found I soon entered into it and really enjoyed their imaginative interpretations of such well-known music.
Read moreThe shocking impact on its first hearers of Schubert’s Winterreise is well documented; his friends were ‘dumbfounded’ by the overwhelming power of the grief expressed in the 24 settings of Wilhelm Muller’s poems. It is hugely popular today, but you have to prepare yourself for a performance
Read moreAs someone who has long enjoyed listening to Kraus’s music, it has come as something of a disappointment that he seems to have been a rather unlikeable person. Most of the letters that comprise the first part of this volume are full of requests for money from his parents, and complaints about his lot in life;
Read moreThis strikes me as the work of an old-fashioned conductor born in 1933 – six years older than me. However, I kept my eyes on the musicology, and was refreshed when the early-instrument movement became common. I sang the work regularly in my teens,
Read moreIt is hard to believe that this sparkling recital was originally issued in 1993; the repertoire it explores, that of 17th-century Spanish secular music, remains relatively little known. Much of the vocal half of the disc is devoted to the theatre music of Juan Hidalgo, who was closely associated with the great dramatist Calderon.
Read moreThis is the first recording of the six recorder sonatas by Schultzen which were published by Roger in Amsterdam and survive in a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Although they appear in Roger’s 1737 catalogue they are known to have existed as early as 1704 and the identity of A. H. Schultzen, the composer named on the print, is somewhat mysterious.
Read moreThe three sets of partbooks which were copied for Duke Giovanni Angelo Altaemps in the early 17th century constitute the most significant set of sources for early Baroque Roman music, both polychoral and small-scale concertato.
Read moreEMR will readers will surely be able call to mind Quantz’s advocacy of the quartet and his admiration for Telemann’s works in the genre. Well, here’s music that seriously rivals GPT and that’s a clause I never thought I’d type.
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