Ensemble Polyharmonique - Zwolff Madrigalische"End, good; everything, good." Wolfgang Carl Briegel placed these very consoling words at the center of the dedication that he formulated in 1671 for his Zwlff madrigalische Trost Gesnge for five or six voices together with basso continuo. After Briegel had served without interruption over two decades at Gotha's ducal court, he resigned from his post as court music director and solemnly bade farewell to his employer, the local lord Ernst I, Duke of

and growing and developing as an artist

His music stands in the aesthetic realm of Dmitri Shostakovich on the one hand

the earliest Spanish collection of solo instrumental music and accompanied songs

giving no quarter in their full-frontal approach to both their sound and the package they presented it in

Bottazzi's organ verset is identical

Michigan and Pori

The fragile nature of humanity is juxtaposed with the surrounding insanity of the times

I find that his compositions display a great beauty and are reminiscent of Barrios's compositions

for his first recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier

THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY in December 2020

each more unbridled and entertaining than the last

along with arrangements by Peter Lawrence