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## **André Rieu – Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Singular Musical Life** **The Violin That Became His Voice** One of the most personal curiosities of André Rieu’s life is his long-standing relationship with a…

# **André Rieu: A Life Between Tradition, Showmanship, and Musical Conviction** **1. Early Life and Musical Roots (1949–1970s)** André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu was born on **October 1, 1949**, in Maastricht, a city whose…

# **Telemann - Der Geduldige Socrates - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-der-147371706?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-der-147371706?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Georg Philipp Telemann – *****Der geduldige Socrates*** (*The Patient Socrates*) ## **Date, place, and genre** **Composed and premiered: 1721, Hamburg** **Genre: Comic–philosophical opera…

# **Handel - Teseo (highlights) - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Teseo***** (HWV 9): Myth, Magic, and the First English-Style Handelian Opera (1712–1713)** **1. Handel in London: A Composer in…

# **Handel - Partenope - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-146976461?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-146976461?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Partenope**, premiered in **London in 1730**, is one of Handel’s most original and audacious operas—not because of tragedy or heroic grandeur, but because of its…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 97 - 98 - Nikolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146896361?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146896361?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 97 & 98 (1792)** **The consolidation of Haydn’s London symphonic language**…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 83 - 94 - 101 - Capella Istropolitana - Barry Wordsworth ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895866?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895866?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 – “La Poule” (1785)** Symphony No. 83…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 82 - 96 - 100 - Capella Istropolitana - Barry Wordsworth ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895588?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895588?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 82 in C major, Hob. I:82 – “The Bear” (1786)** Symphony No. 82…

# **Karl Böhm - Complete Orchestral Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - Box Set 67CDs ** ## **BEETHOVEN** **CD 1** **Beethoven**: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 “Pastoral” **CD 2** **Beethoven**: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4…

# **Esa-Pekka Salonen - The Complete Sony Recordings - Box Set 61** **CDs ** **CD 1** **Bach**-Transcriptions – Stokowski: Toccata & Fuge BWV 565; Elgar: Fantasie & Fuge BWV 537; Webern: Ricercare from “Das…

# **Bach JS - In Tempore Nativitatis - Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot - Christmas Cantatas BWV 110, 151, 63 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-js-in-noel-146665854?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-js-in-noel-146665854?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Johann Sebastian Bach — Christmas (Noël) Cantatas** **BWV 110 · BWV 151 ·…

# **Offenbach, La Belle Helene - Michael Plasson - Norman, Aler, Bacquier - (Toulouse 1984) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****La Belle Hélène*** *(1864)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *La Belle Hélène* is one of the supreme…

# **Offenbach - Pariser Leben, Rudolf Bibl ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-leben-146648897?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-leben-146648897?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Jacques Offenbach – *****Pariser Leben***** (*****La Vie parisienne*****)** *(1866)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Pariser Leben*—originally *La Vie parisienne*—is one of the most dazzling, intelligent, and culturally…

# **Offenbach - Orphée aux Enfers - Willy Mattes ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-orphee-146648699?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-orphee-146648699?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Jacques Offenbach – *****Orphée aux Enfers*** *(Orpheus in the Underworld, 1858; revised 1874)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Orphée aux Enfers* is not only the…

# **Why Mahler’s Seventh Symphony conducted by Klemperer is so special—and so controversial** **Mahler "Symphony No 7" Otto Klemperer ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU) **Gustav Mahler’s** **Seventh Symphony** has always occupied a problematic, ambiguous, and deeply unsettling…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 32 - 33 - 34 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Around **1763–1766**, **Joseph Haydn** was still consolidating his position within the Esterházy establishment. These were years…

# **José de Nebra - Viento es la dicha de amor - Spanish Baroque Zarzuela - Christophe Coin - Ensemble Baroque de Limoges ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-es-146248849?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-es-146248849?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ***Viento es la dicha de amor*** is one of…

# **José de Nebra (1702–1768): Life, Works, and Historical Significance** **1. Family Origins and Early Formation (1702–c.1720)** **José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco** was born on **6 January 1702** in **Calatayud (Aragón)** into a…

# **Karl Böhm in Dresden - Bruckner / Wagner / Richard Strauss** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/karl-bohm-in-145886872?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/karl-bohm-in-145886872?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Anton Bruckner — Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major “Romantic” (1878/90 version, ed. Robert Haas)** Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden **Anton Bruckner —…

# **Nathan Milstein - Great DG & EMI Recordings [37CD Box Set]** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/nathan-milstein-145753070?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/nathan-milstein-145753070?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## CD 1 — Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos **Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64** — Nathan Milstein; William Steinberg;…

# **Bach and Mozart** Placing Bach and Mozart side by side is like placing two continents next to each other: they touch at the edges, share a landscape of harmony and counterpoint, yet each…

# **Why Bach Is Considered One of the Most Important Composers in the History of Music ** Speaking about Bach often means speaking about a point of origin. Not because he was the first,…

# **PAUL KLETZKI — A PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT** *A narrative exploration of a conductor whose interpretations grew out of the deepest wounds and the deepest tenderness.* There are musicians whose art is shaped by talent,…

# **Handel - The Choice of Hercules - Dettingen Te Deum - Festpiel Orchester Göttingen - Laurence Cummings ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) # ***The Choice of Hercules*****: A Complete Narrative Portrait** ## **I. Handel in 1750:…