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Dresden was a music capital of European rank during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which means that this German city and baroque music have a common history. It was in Dresden that...

End, good; everything, good. Wolfgang Carl Briegel placed these very consoling words at the center of the dedication that he formulated in 1671 for his Zw?lff madrigalische Trost-Ges?nge for five or...

During the seventeenth century the historia developed in Protestant church music as a genre telling the Easter, Passion, and Christmas stories in the words of Luther's Bible. The Dresden chapel...

Bruch / Antje Weithaas / Ndr Radiophilharmonie Bruch: Complete Works For Violin & Orchestra Vol 3 CD1. I. Allegro Energico 2. II. Adagio 3. III. Finale: Allegro Molto 4. I. Allegro Appassionato 5. II...

Max Bruch has never made things easy for fond listeners or performers of music; his contemporaries found him hard to handle, and so have later generations. The reason behind this has nothing to do...

The Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo was awarded the Echo Klassik in 2017 for the album B?la Bartok und Viktor Babin - Concertos for Two Pianos with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra under...

Bruch / Ensemble Ulf Hoelscher String Octet / Quintet For Piano & String Quintet CD1. STR Oct:: Allegro Moderato 2. STR Oct:: Adagio 3. STR Oct:: Allegro Molto 4. QNT for Pno and STR QT: Allegro...

The Loreley is one of the most famous figures of the romantic era, and even today the massive rock in the Rhine is notorious for threatening the river's skippers with shipwreck. The legendary female...

Over the course of his life Max Bruch often made uncomplimentary remarks about the piano as an instrument - even though he himself was an outstanding and successful pianist. On the whole it was not...

Bruch / Swr Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslauten Swedish & Russian Dances CD1. Suite Nach Russischen Volksmelodie 2. Serenade Nach Schwedischen Melodie 3. Schwedische T?âÇÄnze Op. 63 NR, 1 4. Schwedische...

Bruch / Weithaas / Ndr Radio Philharmonic Hannover Complete Works For Violin & Orchestra 2 CD1. Prelude: Allegro Moderato - Antje Weithaas/Ndr Radiophilharmonie Hannover 2. Adagio - Antje...

The first piece composed by Max Bruch during his child prodigy years was a song, and the Five Songs op. 97 number among the last creations with which he closed the files on his long artist's life...