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# **Purcell and Blow - Countertenor duets - James Bowman - Michael Chance - The King's Consort - Robert king ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/purcell-and-blow-144928363?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/purcell-and-blow-144928363?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Purcell - Secular solo songs - Robert King ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/purcell-secular-144928126?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/purcell-secular-144928126?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - The Occasional Oratorio - Robert King ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-oratorio-144926391?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-oratorio-144926391?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The genesis of **Handel’s *****Occasional Oratorio***** (1746)** cannot be understood without the turbulent atmosphere of mid-18th-century London. In the winter of 1745–1746, England…

## **Official Announcement** Welcome to this community, and thank you for being part of one of the most active and significant networks devoted to classical music on Facebook. My name is **Alejandro Rosàs Navarro**,…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.54 - Leipziger Streichquartet** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144880511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144880511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the late 1780s, Haydn had reached a moment of extraordinary artistic mastery. Having transformed the quartet genre through the clarity and wit of…

# **Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 - Imogen Cooper - Northern Sinfonia - Bradley Creswick ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/mozart-piano-nos-144879896?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mozart-piano-nos-144879896?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Tchaikovsky - Complete Symphonies - Gennady Rozhdestvensky ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/tchaikovsky-144873537?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/tchaikovsky-144873537?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Mariss Jansons, aged 10, with conductor Dad and Svatoslav Richter**

# **Mariss Jansons with Herbert von Karajan **

# **ANECDOTES AND CURIOSITIES OF MARISS JANSONS’S LIFE** ## **1. The Child Who Hid Behind the Chairs at the Leningrad Philharmonic** As a boy, Mariss often accompanied his father, Arvīds, to Leningrad Philharmonic rehearsals.…

# **Handel - Joshua - Oratorio - 1848 - Laurence Cummings ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-joshua-144842909?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-joshua-144842909?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) When Handel composed *Joshua* in **summer 1747**, he was in one of the most turbulent yet creatively brilliant phases of his…

# **Handel - Partenope - Riccardo Minasi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-144842156?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-144842156?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Samson - Leonardo García Alarcon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-samson-144841824?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-samson-144841824?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Amadigi di Gaula - Opera - 1715 - Christian Curnyn ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of *****Amadigi*****: Handel in His London Prime (1713–1715)** When Handel composed *Amadigi di Gaula* in…

# **Puccini - Tosca - Georg Solti, National Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca, 1984) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/puccini-tosca-144840611?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/puccini-tosca-144840611?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Puccini - Tosca - James Levine, Philharmonia Orchestra (EMI, 1980) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/puccini-tosca-144839544?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/puccini-tosca-144839544?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAITS OF TOSCA, CAVARADOSSI, AND SCARPIA** ## **I. Floria Tosca — The Woman Torn Between Faith, Passion, and Instinct** Floria Tosca is one of opera’s most psychologically multidimensional heroines. Onstage she appears…

# THE MAKING OF *TOSCA* **A Complete History of the Opera’s Composition, 1896–1899** ## **I. Origins: Sardou, Bernhardt, and a Reluctant Puccini (1893–1896)** Although *Tosca* premiered in 1900, its roots stretch back several years…