Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) belongs, as his Viennese colleague Georg Matthias Monn, to that avant-garde of the 18th century, which replaced the instrumental music and thus also the then new symphonic genre from the dependence of Baroque dance forms and the musical theater. So they prepared the way for Haydn's and Mozart's later development towards fully trained "Wiener Klassik". Christophe Coin and the Orchestra Le Ph�nix present the two cello concertos and a symphony in C major.

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On Sweet Melancholy, the selections include compositions by English composers which focus around the German idea of ‘Weltschmerz,’ or the weariness caused by the ills of the world. Dance settings and fantasies by Thomas Lupo, Henry Purcell, John Hingeston, William Byrd, and more are featured here. The Cellini Consort was founded by three gambists, Goals Eketorp, Brian Franklin, and Thomas Goetschel in 2012. Since then the ensemble has explored the music of the Renaissance and Baroque, filling each performance with their originality and freshness.

Until the 18th c. The boundaries between improvisation and interpretation were fluid. Soloists were able to create the musical material out of the intermediate and transitional parts of a composition freely, off the cuff. On 'Fantasia Baroque', Aleksandra and Alexander Grychtolik play the music in their own way, based partly on figured bass and partly on harmonic structures. Mr. And Ms. Grychtolik are skilled practitioners of virtuosic keyboard music of the 17th -18th c. and the integration of improvisational elements within these works in recordings and concert performances.

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Although Claude Debussy, born near Paris in 1862 and the thirteen years younger Basque Maurice Ravel had very different personalities, they were united through their music in the extension and even intermittent suspension of the borders of traditional tonality and the deviation of their rythmic structures from their customary course – Volodymyr Lavrynenko and argovia philharmonic present the two chief protagonists of French Impressionism. The Swiss sound body, founded in 1963 as the “Aarguer Symphonie Orchestra” has long since grown into an internationally established professional orchestra. Since its 2013/14 season it has been acting as the argovia philharmonic. The orchestra not only shapes its home musically with a broad repertoire, it also makes its name known across the world by touring aborad.

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"I know of no virtuoso trio of this class in the entire world." (Wieland Wagner, 1934) The Trio d’Anches (Reed Trio), of whom Wieland refers, bassoonist Fernand Oubradous, Myrtil Morel (oboe) and Pierre Lefebvre (clarinet) came together in the Paris of the 1920s. This tribute to them, the colorful Parisian world of the time and that typical French line-up of oboe, clarinet and bassoon features a number of original compositions and arrangements as played by the first-rate Trio Lézard.

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The German Rudi Stephan and Briton George Butterworth both died around age 30 in WWI, before either could complete the brilliant careers experts had predicted for them. At the threshold of modernity, both found their own way of musical expression: Stephan in wild expressiveness, Butterworth in rather quiet, almost otherworldly melancholy. The rising star American conductor Kazem Abdullah is General Music Director of the city of Aachen, a post that includes von Karajan and Sawallisch as predecessors. The seven-member Ensemble Aix plays Stephan’s Music for 7 String Instruments.

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