Tag: Henry Purcell

  • PROGRAM NOTES: JAKUB JÓZEF ORLIŃSKI

    PROGRAM NOTES: JAKUB JÓZEF ORLIŃSKI

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    J.J. Fux Non t’amo per il ciel from Il fonte della salute, aperto dalla grazia nel Calvario Johann Joseph Fux was an early-18th-century Austrian court composer of the first rank, best known by musicians today for his widely studied treatise on Renaissance counterpoint entitled Gradus ad Parnassum (1725). The Hapsburg court in Vienna was the…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ARCANTO QUARTET

    PROGRAM NOTES: ARCANTO QUARTET

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    This evening the Arcanto Quartet offers us a chance to explore chamber music from the end of the 17th century to the recent past, sampling music for four players by Henry Purcell (1659–95), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976).   Henry Purcell Long before the primacy of the string quartet, consort music for…