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On this recital, harpsichord Pierre Hanta? brings Handel and Scarlatt together again. Sharing the stage long ago in Rome (for a musical joust before the most eminent cardinals), in Venice (at a...

By the time he issued his first collection of harpsichord suites in 1720, Handel had already focused his attention entirely on opera. As soon as it was published, the set delighted music lovers and...

What is so astonishing in Scarlatti is how external elements gradually permeate his language, make it develop, affect the very structure of the discourse, and give birth to a new way of thinking and...

Domenico Scarlatti was born in 1685 - the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Only a small fraction of his compositions were published during his lifetime; his 555 keyboard...

As with many of the composer's works, live instruments are combined with electronics in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra. Written in 1970, the work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos. Each player...

An outstanding composer-pianist who rose to fame in Paris and London during the early nineteenth century, Friedrich Kalkbrenner is an artist whose music has unjustly fallen into oblivion, despite an...

Japanese pianist Etsuko Hirose describes Pancho Vladigerov as "A captivating character, lit up with joy and bursting with energy, who created a universe of his own, exploring the tremendous...

On this piano recital, pianist David Kadouch explores the Les musiques de Madame Bovary. "The relationship between music and literature has always stimulated me. The memories and images that one can...

Anastasia Kobekina suggests the history of the cello through ellipses, jumps in time between pieces from the 18th century, among the very first written for this instrument alone (Boccherini, Fesch,...

Les ?l?ments invite you to a winter evening, best enjoyed by the fireside. This musical journey from the Middle Ages to the present day, features songs and poems celebrating winter, both it's...

In 1765, Johann Christian Bach, who had settled in London, established with his friend Karl Friedrich Abel the prestigious "Bach Abel Concerts". Surrounded by some of the most talented artists of...

The musicians of Les Ombres pay tribute to Luigi Boccherini. The free and audacious composer was an insatiable traveler and the inventor of the string quartet whose belatedly acknowledged genius has...