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| Johann David Heinichen (1683 - 1729) Theorist and composer. Keyboard student and assistant of Kuhnau at the Leipzig Thomasschule; enrolled in Leipzig University in 1702, earning a law degree in 1706; began a practice in Weissenfels, where he had contact with Kapellmeister J. P. Krieger and his assistant Grünewald. Moved back to Leipzig in 1709 as opera director, also leading a collegium musicum; journeyed to Italy in 1710, where he |
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| This disc was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Small Ensemble Performance." ‘The innocent purpose of this anthology is solely and simply to fill the general listener’s cup with an hour of harmonious pleasure in 3/4 time and to open the door, for the connoisseur, to the 17th-century composer’s Only one of the pieces here, Purcell’s Chacony Z730, will be immediately familiar to listeners other than specialists; for the rest, Goebel has explored some of the byways of the 17th century, omitting the great examples of the late Baroque chaconne by Bach and Rameau in favor of seldom-heard examples by Marini, Mayr, Pezel and others. The Cologne musicians’ carefully prepared menu begins with one of the noblest pieces on the disc, a chaconne with oboes and bassoon from Lully’s opera Phaëton; thereafter the exclusively string textures diminish and swell almost palindromically to reach a climax with a finely sustained chaconne by Georg Muffat. Disciplined and animated playing make the release stimulating and entertaining.-- Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine |
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| The trio sonata is a musical form which was particularly popular around the 17th century and the 18th century. A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata. However, because the basso continuo is usually made up of at least two instruments Among the sonatas most directly influenced by Corelli are those of Henry Purcell, who partly modeled his also on those of another Roman, Lelio Colista, Georg Muffat and Georg Frederic Handel. Other composers show strongly divergent tendencies, among them particularly Heinrich Biber and Dietrich Buxtehude. Another group adjusted the Corelli model to the currents of late baroque music, among the most important being Tommaso Albinoni, Antonio Vivaldi, and Francesco Maria Veracini. Their works are characterized by an expansion and roundedness of form, an intensification of fugal writing in the allegros balanced by an increasing homophony in other movements, and many written-out embellishments formerly left to the player. Several Frenchmen, notably François Couperin and Jean-Marie Leclair , combined the Corelli style with a native flair for simple melody, ever nourished by the air de dance and tastefully laced with trills and turns. The supreme eclectic was Johann Sebastian Bach, who in his many |
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Founded in 1973, and disbanded in 2006, Musica Antiqua Köln has been one of the world's outstanding historical performance ensembles of baroque 
"Wassermusik" is one of the finest among Telemann's overtures, composed in 1723 to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Admiralty of Hamburg. The sea with its varying moods is portrayed in the overture, while dance movements in the suite 
Truly, I was happy to discover Heinichen, Dieupart, Fasch, Pisendel,Quantz and Veracini. Of course,Vivaldi and Biondi made me discover Pisendel before, but not in this way. For those who did not buy the double Cds of Heinichen (which his highly recommanded by the critics) recorded by Goebel, it's your chance to listen to some of his works. You will enjoy the concerto en fa majeur and the beautiful pastorale. On the whole, all the music recorded here is absolutely sublime. The concertos of Fasch and Quantz are so pleasant to hear that you won't be bored to listen to them again and again. The sonata of Pisendel is, at first, dramatic. But the second movement is brilliant and powerfull. The ouverture of Veracini recorded there is, at my own point of wiew, far more interesting than the Cd dedicated to this composer that Goebel recodered in 1994. This Cd is full of surprises, dynamism and very fast movements. A little tornado...Amazon
workshop.’ This, then, in the words of 
%5B6%5D.jpg "Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)")
