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# **Handel - Rodelinda - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-146977003?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-146977003?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Power, Fidelity, and Moral Resistance in Handel’s Most Intimate Tragedy** **Rodelinda** (premiered in **London, 1725**) stands among the most **psychologically profound and emotionally concentrated** of…

# **Handel - Il pastor fido - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-il-pastor-146975888?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-il-pastor-146975888?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Il pastor fido** occupies a very particular place in the operatic output of **George Frideric Handel**. First performed in **1712** at the **Queen’s…

# **Riccardo Chailly — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life in Music** **1. A Childhood Immersed in the Orchestra Pit** Riccardo Chailly did not “discover” music—he was born into it. As the son of…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 85 - 92 - 103 - Capella Istropolitana - Barry Wordsworth ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146896100?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146896100?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 85 in B-flat major, Hob. I:85 – “La Reine” (1785)** Composed as part…

# **The Duel of Giants: Porpora and Handel in London ** London in the 1730s: An Operatic Battleground By the early 1730s, London had become the most lucrative and volatile operatic capital in Europe.…

## **Yannick Nézet-Séguin — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Musical Life** **A Conductor Who Began as a Pianist-Partner** Before he ever stood regularly on the podium, Nézet-Séguin spent countless hours **accompanying singers and instrumentalists…

# **Yannick Nézet-Séguin — A Life in Music ** [[https://yannicknezetseguin.com/en/](https://yannicknezetseguin.com/en/)](https://yannicknezetseguin.com/en/) **Origins and Formation (1975–1995)** Yannick Nézet-Séguin was born on **March 6, 1975**, in **Montreal, Quebec**, into a francophone Canadian family for whom culture and…

# **Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 - 14 - 15 - Emil Gilels** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-146777945?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-146777945?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13, 14, and 15 – History, Dates, and Artistic Context** **Vienna, 1800–1802: Crisis,…

# **Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert - Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion - Box Set 99 CDs** **CD 1** **CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH** The Symphonies for Strings Wq 182 nos. 1–6 **CD 2**…

# **Igor Stravinsky: A Supreme Composer, a Limited Conductor** Few figures in twentieth-century music command admiration as universal as **Igor Stravinsky**. As a composer, he reshaped the language of modern music several times over—first…

# **Alessandro Stradella — A Life in 20 Chapters** **Chapter 1 — Identity, Dates, and Historical Context** Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella was born on **3 July 1643** in **Bologna** and died on **25 February…

# **Bruno Walter with Rosette Anday and Jacques Urlus ** ## **Rosette Anday & Jacques Urlus** **Two singular voices of early 20th-century opera ** **Rosette Anday (1899–1977)** Born in Budapest, Rosette Anday was one…

# **Handel - Messiah - Rebaroque, Gary Graden - Recorded Live in Stockholm Cathedral in 2016 ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-messiah-146667519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-messiah-146667519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-messiah-146667519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel — *****Messiah***** and Charity** **Music as Social Ethics** From its very first…

# **Bach J.C - Missa da Requiem - Miserere - Hans Christoph Rademann ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Johann Christian Bach’s sacred works are far less numerous than those of his father, yet they are **exceptionally revealing**…

# **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 - Robinson Crusoe - Alun Francis** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-crusoe-146649092?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-crusoe-146649092?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****Robinson Crusoe***** (Robinson Crusoé)** *(1867)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Robinson Crusoe* is one of his most original and theatrically inventive opéras-comiques, a work that…

# **Offenbach - Hoffmanns Erzählungen - Heinz Wallberg (Sung in German)** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-heinz-146647765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-heinz-146647765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****Hoffmanns Erzählungen***** (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)** **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Hoffmanns Erzählungen* occupies a unique and paradoxical position in the history of…

# **Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Monteux: A Creative Alliance That Changed Modern Music ** The relationship between **Igor Stravinsky** and **Pierre Monteux** stands as one of the most decisive collaborations between a composer and…

# **Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) — *****Life and Works *** **Early Life and Education (1684–1707)** Johann Gottfried Walther was born on **18 September 1684** in **Erfurt**, one of the most important musical centers of…

# **Otto Klemperer in 1905: a summary of his life and situation at that time** In **1905**, Otto Klemperer was **20 years old** and still in a **decisive formative phase**, far from public recognition…

# **Mahler’s Fourth Symphony** ## *Why Klemperer Offers the Most Profound Metaphysical Reading* Among the many great interpretations of **Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4**, the reading by **Otto Klemperer** stands apart not because it…

# **Joseph Haydn — 50 Curiosities and Anecdotes from an Extraordinary Life** 1. **He was born into humble circumstances**: Haydn was born in **1732 in Rohrau**, the son of a wheelwright and a cook.…

# **Joseph Haydn: Born into Humble Origins** **Joseph Haydn** was born on **31 March 1732** in the small village of **Rohrau**, near the Hungarian border of Lower Austria. His beginnings were strikingly modest, especially…

# **Plácido Domingo: A Life in 20 Chapters** **Chapter 1 — Madrid, 1941: Born into the World of Zarzuela** **Plácido Domingo** was born on **21 January 1941 in Madrid**, into a family where music…