Here is another engaging release from Brilliant Classics’ current series of C.P.E. Bach recordings – recordings that celebrate the genius of a composer who was, on account of his harmon...więcej »
Although now faded into obscurity, Jacques Duphly was one of the most prominent French harpsichordists of his time, famedfor his excellent teaching skills and known for his enviable connectio...więcej »
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is one of the most extraordinary manuscripts of Elizabethan and Jacobean music in existence, and is currently held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Its ex...więcej »
Among the most prized exhibits of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, stands the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the largest surviving anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music. Dating from a per...więcej »
Hans von Bulow called Bach's Well Tempered Clavier 'The Old Testament' of music -- Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas being the so called 'New Testament. Bach's set of 48 preludes and matching fugues is ...więcej »
The most boldly original and innovative of Johann Sebastian Bach's composer-sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel did not have to wait long, unlike his father, for public recognition. His music continued to b...więcej »
It is surprising that so little is known about Marin Marais today, as he could be considered one of the most important French composers of the Baroque period. Born in 1656, the son of a shoemaker, ...więcej »
Here is another engaging release from Brilliant Classics’ current series of C.P.E. Bach recordings – recordings that celebrate the genius of a composer who was, on account of his harmon...więcej »
In 1717 Johann Sebastian Bach entered the service of the Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen. It was an appointment that was to prove highly fruitful, as, free from ecclesiastical duties and with an instr...więcej »
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)J. S. Bach: Notenbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena BachWykonawcy:Johannette Zomer SopranPieter-Jan Belder hartsichord / clavichord / o...więcej »
Baroque powerhouse Domenico Scarlatti -- son of the great Alessandro Scarlatti and born in 1600, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderich Handel -- wrote an enormous 555 keyboard...więcej »
Such was his renown in the musical world -- 'one of the most celebrated Masters of the Science of Musick in the Kingdom and scarce inferior to any in Europe' -- when Henry Purcell tragically died a...więcej »
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750) -- virtuoso organist and composer of a wealth of orchestral, chamber and vocal music -- is one of the most influential composers ever to have lived, one whose wor...więcej »
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Concertos for 3,3 & 4 harpsichordsConcerto for two harpsichords and strings in C minor BWV1060Concerto for two harpsichords and strings ...więcej »
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Ouverture and Suite in D major for oboe, trumpet, strings and basso continuoQuatuor in D minor for two flutes, recorder & basso continuowięcej »
The keyboard sonatas of C.P.E. Bach (1714--1788) bear the hallmarks of a composer who lived through a significant moment in musical history; the fifth child of J.S. Bach, not only was Carl Philipp ...więcej »
Rémy Baudet & Sayuri Yamagata violinsRichte van der Meer cello, Hank Heyink archlute, Musica Amphion directed from the harpsichord by Pieter-Jan Belderwięcej »