Forming the basis of many a self-respecting early music group, the Suites tend to encourage a degree of muscle-flexing in gestural grandeur and corporate homogeneity. La Petite Bande have the latter ...
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England was born before 1066, Alfred’s war, the Danelaw, and the 10th century fight that created a nation
Long before Hastings, England was forged in the brutal reconquest of the Danelaw, as Alfred’s heirs fought decade after decade to reclaim the Viking-held heartlands. This chapter follows the victories ...
I first encountered the Bayeux Tapestry at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Normandy, France, in a room so dimly lit that even the bulbs seemed to be whispering. The embroidery looped around ...
Haydn’s next to last symphony, No. 103, picked up the nickname the “Drumroll” symphony for the rolling timpani that opens the work. It was the eleventh of twelve symphonies Haydn composed specifically ...
British Museum hails record-breaking year for archaeological discoveries – thanks largely to metal detectorists A hoard of pennies linked to Harold II and most likely buried on the eve of battle in ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the ...
Two long-lost organ pieces by J.S. Bach have been performed publicly in Germany for the first time in more than three centuries. The Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1178, and the Chaconne in G minor, BWV ...
In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music". The two solo organ works, ...
Previously unknown organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach have been presented and performed in Germany for the first time in 320 years. Germany's Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer called the discovery of ...
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