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Early Music at its Peripheries

The ever-expanding definition of early music.

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Early Music at its Peripheries

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

The Mozartists

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

The Mozartists

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

The London Haydn Quartet

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