We have been notified of the passing two weeks ago in France of Neville Dilkes, founder of the Midland Sinfonia, which became the English Sinfonia.
Neville, who was 94, made several fine recordings of English music with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
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In Copisteria del Conte: Michele Gallucci, Gasparo Arnaldi, Emanuele Barbella, Carlo Ferrari, Pietro Nardini, Luigi Boccherini; Jacopo Ristori, Sara de Vries, Antoinette Lohmann, Giorgos Samoilis, Viola de Hoog, Gied van Oorschot, Jesse Solway, Anna Pontz, […]
I recently wrote an organ chorale prelude for William Whitehead’s Orgelbüchlein Project which is completing Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, a set of chorale preludes for the church’s year which Bach planned out and started but never finished. […]
This disc continues Naxos’ sterling Wranitzky series: perhaps the most relevant to this new volume so far was Volume Four, which contained the complete “ballet-pantomime” Das Waldmädchen”; here, the first 52 minutes of this latest […]
