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# **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…

# **HUGO WOLF — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** **Chapter 1 — Origins in Windischgrätz (1860–1868)** Hugo Wolf was born on **13 March 1860** in Windischgrätz, a small provincial town in what was then…

# **Johann Pachelbel** **A Life in 20 Chapters (1653–1706)** **Chapter 1 – Birth in a Fractured Germany (1653)** Johann Pachelbel was born in **September 1653** in **Nuremberg**, one of the most important cultural centers…

# **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…

# **Joseph Haydn and the Esterházy Family: The Appointment That Changed a Life Forever** When **Joseph Haydn** entered the service of the **Esterházy family** in **1761**, he crossed a decisive threshold—not merely from insecurity…

# **L'Oiseau-Lyre - Medieval & Renaissance - Box Set 50 CDs ** **CD1: Music for Holy Week** **CD2: Ce Diabolic Chant – Ballades, Rondeaus & Virelais of the Late Fourteenth Century** **CD3: Carmina Burana…

# **L'Oiseau-Lyre - The Baroque Era - Box Set 50 CDs ** **CD1** **ARNE – Overtures** Academy of Ancient Music • Christopher Hogwood **CD2** **BOYCE – Eight Symphonies, Op. 2** Hogwood **CD3** **BLOW –…

# **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…

# **Anna Maria Pertl Mozart (1720–1778): The Silent Pillar Behind a Genius** **Anna Maria Pertl**, the mother of **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart**, occupies a paradoxical place in music history: **indispensable, yet largely invisible**. Her life…

# **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…

# **Bela Bartok - The Hungarian Soul - Box Set 20 CDs ** **CD 1** **Bartók: Suite No. 2, Sz. 34, BB 40** Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Charles Bruck **Bartók: Two Pictures,…

# **Mozart: Knight of the Order of the Golden Spur** In **1770**, during the celebrated Italian journey that confirmed his European reputation, **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** received one of the highest distinctions the Holy See…

# **Jean-Baptiste Lully, Super-Intendant of Royal Music under Louis XIV**

# **Gounod - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - Iceland SO, Yan Pascal Tortelier ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/gounod-nos-1-2-146349458?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/gounod-nos-1-2-146349458?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Charles Gounod and the Symphony: An Unlikely Encounter** Although today **Charles Gounod** is remembered above all as…

# **C.P.E. Bach - The Solo Keyboard Music 42 - Miklós Spányi ** **Keyboard Transcriptions III** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347697?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347697?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347697?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) * **Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in F major, Wq. 43 No. 1 (H. 471) – version for…

# **C.P.E. Bach - The Solo Keyboard Music 41 - Miklós Spányi ** **Keyboard Transcriptions II ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347275?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347275?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/c-p-e-bach-solo-146347275?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) * **Symphony in C major, Wq 174 (H. 649)** * **Allegro ma non troppo in E-flat…

# **Brahms - Chamber music for strings - Bartok Quartet, Ede Banda, György Konrad ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-chamber-146342980?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-chamber-146342980?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 50 - 51 - 52 - Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146341790?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146341790?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 50 in C major, Hob. I:50 (c. 1773)** At first glance, a…

# **Bruno Walter: The Private Life Behind the Podium** **Bruno Walter** is often remembered as one of the great humanist conductors of the 20th century—warm, lyrical, and morally grounded. That humanism was not an…

# **Vivaldi – Vespro a San Marco - Leonardo García Alarcon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-vespro-146286663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-vespro-146286663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Venice, San Marco, and the Sound of Sacred Splendour** In early 18th-century Venice, sacred music was never purely devotional. It…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 41 - 58 - 59 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) During the late 1760s and early 1770s, **Joseph Haydn** was no longer simply supplying elegant entertainment.…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 -Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274376?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274376?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## By **1766–1768**, **Joseph Haydn** had become full Kapellmeister to the Esterházy court. His…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 30 - 55 - 63 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the early 1760s, **Joseph Haydn** had entered a decisive phase of his career. As Vice-Kapellmeister…