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Early Music at its Peripheries
The ever-expanding definition of early music.
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FIRST PUBLISHED 01 SEP 2024
This playlist will take you on a journey to the far corners of the early music world. It looks at the brilliant, imaginative sphere of instrumental music and surveys how it can expand our perception of what early music can be and can do. Discover works by little-known composers and hear more familiar pieces performed in eye-opening ways.
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Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2 / Erster Teil - No. 11 Chor: "Stimmt an die Saiten"
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, and Monteverdi Choir
Niccolò Jommelli: Il Vologeso, Act I: Overture
Luigi Boccherini: Quintet No. 4 in D G448 'Fandango'
Johan Löfving, Consone Quartet
Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, op.83, III. Andante
András Schiff, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K499 'Hoffmeister'
Quatuor Mosaïques, Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof, Anita Mitterer, Christophe Coin
Niccolò Jommelli: Il Vologeso, Act II: Recitativo accompagnato: De’ miei desiri ormai
Michael Haydn: String Quintet in F Major, P. 112, MH 411, VII. Marcia
Salzburger Haydn-Quintett
Gabriel Fauré: Romance in B-Flat Major, Op. 28
Jane Gordon, Jan Rautio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 In E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica", III. Scherzo (Allegro Vivace)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross Op. 51, L'introduzione
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