The season’s forced joyfulness pushes many towards melancholy. All those carols and crooners, the triumphant blasts of angelic trumpets from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah, the smarmy ...
His life was lived in time of war, plague, and famine. He did not shelter in place. No music was cloaked more darkly in the allure and peril of travel than that of the enigmatic seventeenth-century ...
Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: $15| ArkivMusic: $19 | Qobuz download: £8 - 13 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 Cembalista Alina Rotaru has a new disc out, “Parthenia” (Sono Luminus), the title of which the ...
Johann Jakob Froberger wanted all his music burned after his death because he didn't think anyone else would be able to play it well enough. He would surely have been reassured by the deep ...
23 Suites for Harpsichord Glen Wilson, Harpsichord Johann Jacob Froberger, Composer Tombeau Johann Jacob Froberger, Composer Glen Wilson, Harpsichord Lamentation Johann Jacob Froberger, Composer Glen ...
This is the fourth and final volume of a series devoted to Froberger’s complete Suites, nearly 50 in total over eight CDs recorded over six years. They include the contents of the two autograph ...
Harpsichordist Sophie Yates looks at the life and music of the German keyboard virtuoso Johann Jakob Froberger, who was born 400 years ago this month.