Paul Goodwin is regarded as the foremost baroque oboist of his generation, is now firmly established as a conductor. He has made more than 20 solo and concerto recordings and was soloist with many of Europe's finest early music groups. Goodwin's experience as an oboist helps bring lyricism, phrasing, and architecture to his conducting.
Peter Harvey (born 1958) is an English baritone.
Harvey specialises in Baroque music.
However, he also sings works by later composers, including contemporary ones. Harvey was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied languages before switching to music.
He then went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He was a soloist in the Monteverdi Choir's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000; he completed the bass parts in seventy cantatas in performance and recording.
Fretwork is one of the world's most acclaimed viol consorts. Founded in 1986 in London, UK, the group mainly performs music of the sixteenth through eigtheenth centuries, from Elizabethan English music through the Baroque period. Fretwork have also commissioned modern works for viols and have been in demand for film soundtracks. Among their frequent guest artists are counter tenor Michael Chance, tenor Charles Daniels, soprano Emma Kirby, lutenists Jacob Heringman and Christopher Wilson, and keyboardists Paul Nicholson and Timothy Roberts.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 – March 16, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist. Pergolesi was born in Jesi, where he studied music under Francesco Santini there before going to Naples in 1725 where he studied under Gaetano Greco among others. He spent most of his life working in Neapolitan courts. Pergolesi was one of the most important early composers of opera buffa (comic opera). His opera seria Il prigioner superbo contained the two act buffa intermezzo, La Serva Padrona (The Landlady Servant, 1733), which became a very popular work in its own right.
Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706) was an acclaimed Baroque composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. Pachelbel's music was influenced by south German composers such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Kaspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition.
Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. His study with Gustav Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historical performance. Egarr has worked with all types of keyboards and performed repertoire ranging from fifteenth-century organ intabulations to Dussek and Chopin on early pianos, to Berg and Maxwell Davies on modern piano.
Michael Schade ist ein Liedermacher aus Heidelberg.
Im Gegensatz zu den meisten anderen Liedermachern unserer Zeit, wie Joint Venture oder Fred Timm, sind seine Texte sehr politisch.
Politisch kann man ihn links außen einorden, in den älteren Liedern eher im roten, heutzutage dann doch mehr im schwarz-roten Lager.
Er steht meistens alleine mit seiner Akkustikgitarre auf der Bühne, auf seinem neuen Album "Mein Schrei", dass Anfang Februar erschienen ist, sind primär E-Gitarren und in einem Lied sogar ein Chor zu hören.
LA VENEXIANA, founded by Claudio Cavina, is today the most important madrigal group currently in activity. In styling to the anonymous renaissance comedy from it's named , LA VENEXIANA aims to incorporate into its musical interpretation the theatrically, attention to language in all of its subtlety, and exultation of contrasts between refined and popular, sacred and profane, that characterize our culture today.