A refreshingly intimate setting of the Preces and Responses in easy SATB: a welcome addition to the Evensong repertoire. Emma writes "I approached the text as prayer, considering not only the words th...
Cast in two parts, this cycle of seven songs represents a kind of musical portrait of an American poet - much admired by Robert Frost - whose reputation as a master of verse, and of the sonnet in part...
The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel c...
Mozart’s final three symphonies were composed, according to Mozart’s autograph Verzeichnüß, in the space of a few weeks, from late June to early August 1788. During that year the 11-year-old Hummel wa...
Stanley Sadie’s opinion, expressed in 1963, that the two of the twelve trio sonatas by Frederick Ernest Fisher(1711/12-1760), divided equally between Op. 1 (c.1751) and Op. 2 (c.1761), were ‘among the...
Ordinary violin sonatas formed the backbone of the series of ten collections that the Italian violinist Michel Mascitti (1663/4-1760), born in southern Italy but permanently resident in Paris from 170...
In 1772 John Addison brought out in Edinburgh a volume containing six duets in the form of three- or four-movement sonatas for two unaccompanied violins, his only works to survive. Such duets were hig...
