In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Christine Schäfer/Michael Schade/Andreas Schmidt/Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Bach-Collegium Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation) Juliane Banse/Ingeborg Danz/Michael Schade/Andreas Schmidt/Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Prague Chamber Choir/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Helmuth Rilling Mendelssohn: Paulus (St. Paul Oratorio) Christine Schäfer/Cornelia Kallisch/Michael Schade/Wolfgang Schöne/Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Bach-Collegium Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah)
(all on Hänssler Classic)
These two-disc sets, reissued from now-classic mid-'90s recordings led by legendary choral conductor Helmuth Rilling, boast similar virtues. Primarily, Rilling -- who celebrated his 80th birthday at the end of May -- understands as well as any conductor alive that the key to an oratorio performance that will stand up to repeated straight-through listening is to keep things moving. This might seem obvious when dealing with works clocking in upwards of two hours, yet the recording catalogs are littered with renditions that drag because their...
(all on Hänssler Classic)
These two-disc sets, reissued from now-classic mid-'90s recordings led by legendary choral conductor Helmuth Rilling, boast similar virtues. Primarily, Rilling -- who celebrated his 80th birthday at the end of May -- understands as well as any conductor alive that the key to an oratorio performance that will stand up to repeated straight-through listening is to keep things moving. This might seem obvious when dealing with works clocking in upwards of two hours, yet the recording catalogs are littered with renditions that drag because their...
- 6/20/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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