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Domenico Scarlatti
…John V of Portugal and as the music master to Princess Maria Barbara de Bragança. This association with the Portuguese royalty would greatly influence his compositional style in the years…
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L’Elisir d’Amore – Esulti Pur La Barbara – Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Le Philtre. Performed by the Opera de Lyon. Conducted by Evelino Pido. Starring Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Scaltriti,…
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Johann Strauss I
…Strauss and Barbara Dollmann, were humble innkeepers. Strauss’s early exposure to music was through his father’s humble inn, located by the Danube Channel. The diverse melodies played by sailors from…
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
…of the Baroque style to the simplicity of the Classicism. He was the second surviving son of the legendary Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. Early…
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Ave Maria – Franz Schubert
Barbara Hendricks and Roland Pöntinen record Ave Maria in 2007.
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Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Barbara Hendricks sings Schubert’s Ave Maria live in 2007….
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Haydn – Nelson Mass, Part 3
Bonney, Howells, Johnson & Roberts perform Haydn’s “Nelson Mass” Part lll Gloria ll. The soloists are Barbara Bonney (Soprano), Anne Howells (Mezzo Soprano), Anthony R. Johnson (Tenor), and Stephen Roberts…
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Johann Sebastian Bach
…devoted to his family. He had seven children with his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach, and after her death in 1720, he married a singer named Anna Magdalena Wülcken. They…
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Thaïs – Full Opera by Jules Massenet
Thaïs opera at Teatro Regio di Torino in 2008 conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Directed by Stefano Poda, with Barbara Frittoli as Thaïs, Lado Ataneli as Athanaël, Alessandro Liberatore as Nicias,…
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Johann Pachelbel
…faced personal tragedy during his time in Erfurt. His first wife, Barbara Gabler, and their only son succumbed to a plague in 1683. He later remarried Judith Drommer (Trummert) in…
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Pulcinella – Complete Ballet Music by Stravinsky
Barbara Hannigan conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Pulcinella, composed in 1919-20….
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The Waltzing Cat by Leroy Anderson
Barbara Hannigan conducts Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a performance of The Waltzing Cat by Anderson.
