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Around 1490, the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels". It consists of three paintings for the outside of an altar and shows God the Father surrounded by angels singing and playing...

Pow wow is said to derive from the Algonquian words 'pau wau' which means 'he dreams,' and denotes an originally religious significance. Today, pow wows do not retain much religious meaning. Due to...

Fado is a traditional but also contemporary style of singing in Portugal. The word comes from the Latin fatum, which means fate or destiny. Fado represents a feeling of "saudade," an expression...

Fasch: Concertos For Various Instrument / Il Gardellino, Composer: Johann Friedrich Fasch, Orchestra/Ensemble: Il Gardellino, Number of Discs: 1. Johann Friedrich Fasch was by all accounts a composer...

Gottfried Finger: The Complete Music For Viola Da Gamba Solo, Finger / Ensemble Tourbillon / Wagner, Composer: Gottfried Finger, Performer: Petr Wagner, Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Tourbillon,...

Ford / Perl / Heumann Why Not Here - Music For Two Lyra Viols CD1. A Paven (M. Maynes Choice) 2. The Galiard 3. Forget Me Not 4. The Baggepipes (Sir Charles Howards Delight) 5. Why Not Here (M...

The Viennese Court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) is regarded in music history as the forefather of modern counterpoint, and his instructional work "Gradus ad parnassum" continues to...

Margret K?ll is one of the most important interpreters of the historical harp. In her new album she dedicates herself to the "single pedal harp", which was developed at the beginning of the 18th...

Brothers Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun were highly influential and popular figures in 18th Century Berlin. As musicians of the court of Frederick the Great, Carl Heinrich became an...

Carl Heinrich Graun, like other Italian-influenced or Italian-trained German composers of his time, composed Italian cantatas throughout his entire creative period. The three cantatas belong to a...

In 1709, the music-loving Landgraf Ernst Ludwig from Darmstadt had discovered Christoph Graupner as a harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera in 1709 and had hired him on the spot. The Landgraf had made...

Christoph Graupner was one of the most important composers in Germany during his lifetime. In the competition for the position of Leipzig's Thomaskantor, he was second only to Telemann and ahead of...