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Jan Nigges & Alexander von Heißen – L’hommage (Music for the Sun King – Vol. III) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 21:16 minutes | 244 MB | Genre: Classical
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In the three-part series L’Hommage – Music for the Sun King, recorder player Jan Nigges and harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen dedicate themselves to high baroque chamber music as it might have been heard at the court of the French King Louis XIV in his private chambers or in the salons of the courtiers surrounding him. The second volume of the series is dedicated to the important Baroque composers François and Louis Couperin and Anne Danican Philidor.
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Jan Nigges & Alexander von Heißen – L’hommage (Music for the Sun King – Vol. II) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:52 minutes | 318 MB | Genre: Classical
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In the three-part series L’Hommage – Music for the Sun King, recorder player Jan Nigges and harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen dedicate themselves to high baroque chamber music as it might have been heard at the court of the French King Louis XIV in his private chambers or in the salons of the courtiers surrounding him. The second volume of the series is dedicated to the important Baroque composers François and Louis Couperin and Anne Danican Philidor.
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Jan Nigges & Alexander von Heißen – L’hommage (Music for the Sun King – Vol. I) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:41 minutes | 282 MB | Genre: Classical
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Jan Nigges gives concerts internationally as a soloist and with his ensemble. In the past three years he has been a guest at the Opus Amadeus Oda Müziği Festivali in Istanbul, the Riga Early Music Centre in Latvia, the Festival d’Ambronay in France, the Centro Musica Antica in Italy, the Narodowe Forum Muzyki (NFM) in Poland, the Stiftung Mozarteum in Austria, the Merano Festival in South Tyrol, the Vesperali Festival Lugano in Ticino and the MA Festival Brugge in Belgium.
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Jonas Zschenderlein, Alexander von Heißen – Pure – Works For Violin and Harpsichord By Bach, Corelli, Von Westhoff & Montanari (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:33 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Yet another a record of baroque violin works played by baroque instrumentalists on period baroque instruments”, you might well say upon reading the track list of this release by (baroque…) violinist Jonas Zschenderlein, accompanied by harpsichord player Alexander von Heißen. In fact, it’s anything but! The idea of this album is to record the instruments in a completely modern way, with microphones placed up close, and a post-production operation (mixing, balancing tracks between microphones, equalisation or distortion of the original sound, artificial reverberation, etc.) of the sort normally found on rock albums. The result is a sound which is bound to startle a listener who is used to their Bach Sonata BWV 1019 being played a certain way, according to the canonical method imposed by post-romantic violinists in recent decades, or by “pure” baroque artists. But that’s the whole point. Corelli himself gets the same treatment and his reasonably famous Sonata Op. 5 No. 5 becomes pretty much unrecognisable. On the other hand, lesser-known works by Montanari and Westhoff, thanks to the treatment they get here, could well become standards…
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Alexander von Heißen – Beat Bach: A Cancelled Clavier Competition (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:36 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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There are plenty of legends about great composers and famous musicians, including examples of musical duels such as the one between the young George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti in Rome in 1709 or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Muzio Clementi in Vienna in 1781. The participants were to compete in the art of improvisation or to demonstrate their musical skills in an appropriate way.
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