Erik Bosgraaf & Cordevento – Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Erik Bosgraaf & Cordevento – Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:26 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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The forgotten figure of a 17th-century Dutch recorder virtuoso, illuminated by a unique synthesis of art history, scholarship and modern musicianship.

Der Fluyten Lust-hof (The Recorder’s Pleasure Garden, or Garden of Delights) is a famous collection of music for recorder composed by Jacob van Eyck and published in Amsterdam by Paulus Matthijsz. The same Matthijsz published a parallel recorder edition in 1644 that he dedicated to a certain Adriana vanden Bergh: Der goden fluit-hemel (The Gods’ Recorder Heaven). Her identity remained obscure for centuries, until the musicologist Thiemo Wind discovered that she was portrayed as the muse Euterpe by the painter Jacob Backer, an illustrious contemporary of Rembrandt.

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Cordevento & Erik Bosgraaf – Le Plaintif (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cordevento & Erik Bosgraaf – Le Plaintif (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:55 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

An ‘illuminating’ series (Fanfare) reaches Volume 9, presenting the complete piano sonatas on instruments of the period.

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Erik Bosgraaf – Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Recorder and Viola da Gamba (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Erik Bosgraaf – Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Recorder and Viola da Gamba (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

Telemann was renowned in his own day for the spontaneity and fluency of his music, which appealed to professional and amateur musicians alike. These qualities abound in his trio sonatas in particular. As he wrote in one of his autobiographies (1718): ‘In particular, people wished to persuade me that trios were my greatest strength, because I arranged them so that one voice would have as much to do as the other.’
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