Johann David Heinichen - Concerti Grandi – Reinhard Goebel, MAK

 

Release Date: 1 Nov 1993 Label: Archiv Number of discs: 1 Composer: J.D. Heinichen  Performer: Goebel, Musica Antiqua Koln cd info/ buy

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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 enjoyed acclaim as an opera composer in Venice and taught Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen in Rome. In 1717, while still in Italy, he was appointed Kapellmeister in Dresden, a post he held until his death. Although his output includes a great variety of sacred and secular vocal music and instrumental works, he is best known for his treatise Der Generalbass in der Composition (1728, partially reworked from a publication of 1711), an exhaustive account not only of continuo practice but also of the technical and aesthetic aspects of composition.--Hoasm

 

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Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel - Chaconne

Release Date: March 11, 1997 Label: Archiv Number of discs: 1 Composer:Marini, Corelli, Purcell, Blow, Lully, Muffat, Pezel, Mayr Performer: Goebel, MAK cd info/ buy

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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 workshop.’ This, then, in the words of Reinhard Goebel, director of Musica Antiqua Köln, is the raison d’être of the present disc. Nine consecutive chaconnes may sound a little too much of a good thing, but the wonderfully varied melodic patterns that skilful composers could develop over an ostinato or ground bass fully justify the programme. 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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Sonaten aus Dresden - Goebel, Musiqua Antiqua Koln

Founded in 1973, and disbanded in 2006, Musica Antiqua Köln has been one of the world's outstanding historical performance ensembles of baroque music. Performances have been marked with intensity, research into older performance styles, and the use of original instruments. MAK produced most recordings on DG Archiv Produktion. They produced award-winning discs of Telemann, Bach, Heinichen, and Bach's family. Reinhard Goebel was the ensemble's director, and first violin. This recording from 1999 features music by Pietro Andrea Ziani, Johann Wilhelm Furchheim, Clemens Thieme and Johann Joseph Fux.

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