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Claudio Monteverdi

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSpring Week 2

    Apr 12th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Arnold Bax, Carl Hervelius, Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Li Huanzhi, Twitter

    Classical Spring For January 2019 the #ClassicsaDay team made #ClassicalWinter then theme. It seemed only right to continue the trend and celebrate Spring. So for April 2019, everyone is encouraged to share classical works inspired by the season. Some famous pieces may readily come to mind, such as the “Spring” movement from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” or […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalShorts Week 1

    Feb 8th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, Francisco Tarrega, Frederic Chopin, Fritz Kreisler, John Adams, Twitter

    February is the shortest month of the year. That fact inspired #ClassicsaDay team (of which I’m a member) to make short classical pieces the theme for the month. The challenge is to select stand-alone works, not movements of larger pieces. Participants post links to short classical pieces in the social media channel of their choice, […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #PoetryMonth – Week 2

    Apr 13th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #PoetryMonth, Aaron Copland, Claudio Monteverdi, Gustav Mahler, John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Twitter

    What’s the connection between classical music and classic poetry? That was theme some of us decided to explore with #ClassicsaDay. For April 2018 we posted examples of settings of poetry in classical music, works inspired by poetry, and more. Here’s an annotated list of the works I posted for the first week of #PoetryMonth. Gustav […]

  • Claudio Monteverdi’s Total Eclipse of the Renaissance

    Aug 18th, 2017 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: Baroque music, CD Review, Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, Delitiae Musicae, early music, madrigal, Marco Longhini, Naxos, Opera, stile concitato

    Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi inhabited a changing landscape; the high-minded, heavenly polyphony of the renaissance was gradually giving way to the more prosaic and popularly oriented sound of the baroque. 2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s baptism in Cremona on May 15, 1567. On April 9th, 1567 the city of Rome was only 2 […]

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