Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Programme Notes: York Early Music Festival, July 2010
It is well-known, at least here in Albion, that many a French specialty is of foreign origin. French cookery in its classic tradition descends, of course, from the innovations introduced by the capi cuochi of Catherine de Médicis. In the visual arts, the first School of Fontainebleau was virtually the private domain of Italians and Flemings, while […]
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Handel, Couperin, & Bach: Three Masters of the High Baroque
Like Beethoven and Liszt after him, George Frederick Handel was renowned as a keyboard virtuoso before he reached his full maturity as a composer. Like any musician of the Baroque age, his consciousness of music came through the keyboard as well as through singing – there is, of course, the famous story of his having […]