The 1756 work can be heard on new recordings by the Brussels-based ensemble Il Gardellino, led by Peter Van Heyghen, and the Ghislieri Orchestra and Choir, based in Pavia, Italy, under Giulio Prandi.
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Move over, Mozart Effect, and make way for the Beethoven Syndrome. Thus the dramatically titled new book by Mark Evan Bonds, an absorbing exploration of yet another way Beethoven matters to modernity.
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The Inclusive Early Music project’s most comprehensive resource is a bibliography cataloguing more than 100 scholarly articles, including sources that explore music-making both outside of Europe and by marginalized peoples within Europe.
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The idea for a recording centered on composers who died of mysterious and terrifying diseases came to the musicians of Les Barocudas in September 2019, months before COVID-19 swept the globe.
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On this new album of cantatas and arias from Barbara Strozzi’s eighth and last publication, soprano Elissa Edwards soars in what likely was Strozzi’s own role as singer.
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