I’ll see if I can feature more of G.Valentini’s work. I like it. 🙂 Giovanni Valentini (ca. 1582 – 29/30 April 1649) was an Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso. Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, Valentini is practically forgotten today, although he occupied one of
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach, Cantata 35, 5. Sinfonia
Bach’s Cantata BWV 35, Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Soul and spirit become confused), is one of three alto solo works in Trinity Time of the third annual church cycle of 1726-27 that has an old established and much used text of Georg Christian Lehms. It employs obbligato organ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude – The Art of Fugue
This disk has not left rotation in my CD player for week month long stretches. One hour and twenty minutes of bliss. Enjoy. Filed under: Music Tagged: Back, Baroque, The Art Of Fugue, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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