
In the Name of the Father
Based on his solid counterpoint, the Leipzig Master took the music of the Baroque to its ultimate expression and, moreover, filled it with matchless mysticism.
Mysticism, Enigmas and Spirituality in J. S. Bach’s Music (1685 – 1750)
Pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach
1 traverso, 1 violin, 1 violoncello, 1 harpshichord
Timing
80 min
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Spanish travelling virtuosi
Although Spain is not considered one of the main European music centres in the 18th century, it is true that there was no lack of great musicians and important virtuosi. Many of them embraced the cosmopolitan ideas of the Enlightenment, and decided to travel abroad in search for both success and new, stimulating experiences.
Type of programme
Spanish travelling virtuosi in the European Age of Enlightenment
Pieces by J. B. Pla, J. N. Ximénez, G. Facco, F. Lluch y J. Cabanilles
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 violín, 1 violoncello, 1 baroque guitar, 1 harpsichord
Timing
70 min
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Cristal bello
During the first half of the 18th Century saw a notorious change in musical taste throughout Europe. This taste, which musicology has defined as ‘galant’, holds Italian opera seria as its main reference, with its lyrical and cantabile melodies and transparent textures. Being fashionable became a composer’s main concern, causing a continual circulation of new music, especially that composed by Italians. In this sense, the Spanish monarchy was no exception.
This programme proposes a selection of sacred pieces performed in Spain and Mexico virreinal of the 18th century. The composers appearing in this programme belong to a generation born around 1700, a generation very much influenced by Neapolitan authors. It was precisely these composers the ones who began composing for flute more frequently in Spain. It was an instrument that was gradually introduced in the Spanish musical chapels from the decades of 1720-1730, its use being registered later in the musical chapels in Ibero-America.
Type of programme
Sacred music in Spain and Viceroyal Mexico from the 18th Century
Pieces by J. Casellas, J. Nebra, I. Jerusalem y Stella, Fco. Hernández Illana, P. A. Locatelli and J. M. Ramoss
Musicians
1 soprano, 1 traverso, 2 violins, 1 violoncello, 1 baroque guitar,
1 double bass and 1 harpsichord
Timing
70 min
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Le Concert Spirituel
Paris, the city bathed by the Seine, was one of the most important musical centres in Europe. During the course of the 18th Century, the city underwent a great period of growth due to a strong
economic expansion and provincial immigration. Within this context, Paris became one of the most important intellectual centres of
Europe, one of the principal bastions for the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Founded in 1725, Le Concert Spirituel was an institution which organised concerts up until 1790, mainly for an audience of well-heeled bourgeois, low aristocracy and foreign visitors. It was created with the idea of providing entertainment during religious festivities when the grandest Parisian shows were closed. These concerts were held for many years in the Tuileries Palace, and the programmes often included a mixture of sacred works and instrumental virtuosic pieces for the musicians to showcase their skills and abilities. Many of them were composed and performed by musicians who worked in Le Concert Spirituel.
Type of programme
French virtuosi in 18th Century Paris
Pieces by J. J. C. de Mondonville, J. B. Barrière, M. Blavet, M. Corrette and J. M. Leclair
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 violin, 1 violoncello, 1 harpsichord
Timing
70 min
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A safe harbour
The city was especially proud of their great harbour, “Germany’s gate to the world”. Thanks to it, the inhabitants of Hamburg were soon able to enjoy some prosperity, and did not hesitate to allocate part of their large profits for cultural purposes.
And thus the city, bastion of Protestantism, opened the first opera theatre in Germany. And just as London attracted musicians from all over Europe, the rich and liberal Hamburg became a focus of attraction for a great number of their German colleagues, who travelled there in search of an escape route.
Music for flute in Hamburg at the time of Georg Philipp Telemann
Pieces by G. P. Telemann, G. F. Handel, J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 violoncello, 1 harpsichord
Timing
63 min
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Esterháza
In 1761, the Viennese composer Joseph Haydn comes into service at the court of the Esterházy family, one of the richest and most influential of the Austria-Hungarian empire. Haydn worked for almost 30 years for the Prince Nikolaus I Esterházy, nicknamed “The Magnificent” due to the huge amount of money and resources he put aside for organising different kinds of spectacles and entertainments.
During this period, Haydn wrote as many as 175 works for bariton, an instrument from the family of the viola da gamba which had gained a certain popularity in the second half of the 18th Century, and which Prince Nikolaus himself played in the daily chamber concerts. Due to the gradual fall of use of the baryton and probably to a commercial interest, Haydn arranged several of his 126 trios for bariton, viola and violoncello into works for flute, violin and violoncello. The arrangement of these works, both his own and by other composers, to different formations was a regular practice of the period.
Type of programme
Trios for flute, violin and cello by J. Haydn in the court of Nikolaus Esterházy
Pieces by Joseph Haydn
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 violin, 1 violoncello
Timing
60 min
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Bach & Sons
Sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord in the Bach family´s living room
Pieces by J. S. Bach, W. F. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, J. Ch. F. Bach and J. Ch. Bach
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 harpsichord
Timing
70 min
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Haydn in London
It is in this context that London attracted many musicians from all over Europe whowere looking to make a place for themselves in the intense musical life of the capital city. Such intense musical life is reflected in the enormous quantity of music printed by editors who had set up their base in London. In November, 1789, John Bland travelled to Esterhaza, where he met Joseph Haydn. In this encounter, Haydn undertook to write for Bland the three works which we can hear in this programme.
Type of programme
Trios for flute, cello and fortepiano by J. Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Pieces by Joseph Haydn
Musicians
1 traverso, 1 violoncello, 1 fortepiano
Timing
60 min
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Appropriato all´Organo
Concertante sonatas for flute and obbligato organ
Pieces by J. S. Bach, J. L. Krebs , J. W. Hertel, G. P. Telemann y G. F. Händel
1 traverso, 1 organ
Timing
60 min
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