Articles by Total Baroque
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Gli Angeli Genève & Stephan MacLeodManchicourt: Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus
Little known today, Pierre de Manchicourt was nevertheless one of the leading polyphonists of the 16th century. Thirty years after recording his music with Paul Van Nevel, Stephan MacLeod returns to Manchicourt with Gli Angeli Genève in an album conceived as both a rediscovery and a tribute.
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Concerto SciroccoFolías y Glosas
With “Folías y Glosas”, Concerto Scirocco brings to life the instrumental world of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. From ministriles and dances to ostinato basses and improvised variations, Giulia Genini leads Cabezón, Ortiz, Falconieri and Praetorius through a programme in which forms travel, transform and constantly change colour.
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Solomon’s KnotBach: Köthener Trauermusik
The music of Bach’s “Köthener Trauermusik”, composed for the funeral of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen in 1729, has been lost, but the libretto and many details of the ceremony survive. Solomon’s Knot presents a new reconstruction by Chad Kelly, drawing in particular on the “St Matthew Passion” and the “Trauerode BWV 198”.
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