Join Edward Higginbottom - renowned conductor, organist, and scholar - for a live online recital / lecture on the dazzling music of the French Baroque, followed by an audience Q&A.
Edward writes:
When we talk about nationalism as a movement in Music history, the late nineteenth century looms. The likes of Dvorak and Smetana and then Sibelius giving voice to their national identities. But some such thing had been going on for much longer, in ways which pitted one school of music-making against another. There was plenty of nationalism in Baroque music, to the degree that admiring one style could mean abhorring another. These days we tend to be rather promiscuous in our listening habits. But what if we really tried to hear these early musics as they were heard in their day?
My talk is to lift the veil which may be obscuring our appreciation of French baroque music. One corner of the veil at least. Come and be illuminated.
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