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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

  • French Music for the Bassoon — a varied and satisfying collection

    Sep 9th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Accent, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Danny Bond, Etienne Ozi, Francois Devienne, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Michel Corrette

    If you get this release, be sure to read the liner notes. They explain the origin of the bassoon from the Rennaissance curtal. These two double-reed low-register instruments existed side-by-side for almost a century. Only in the 1700’s did the bassoon finally supplanted the curtal completely. And that’s the era featured in this recording. This […]

  • Neumeyer Consort entertains with Boismortier

    Mar 4th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Christophorus, Classical music, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Neumeyer Consort

    Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was sometimes called the French Telemann — and with good reason. Like his namesake, Boismortier had a facility for composition, producing a seemingly unending stream of music with ease. And like Telemann, it wasn’t just hackwork. Boismortier knew what the public wanted — and wrote accordingly. But he did so without […]

  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Chamber Music all business

    Dec 4th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Baroque music, Cappella Musicale, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Enrico Stuart, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

    Sometimes it’s easy to forget that music is a business — even classical music. It’s something Joseph Bodin de Boismortier always remembered. And it made him wealthy. Boismortier was active in the early 1700s and a contemporary of Rameau. He was one of the first composers to be successful without a patron. Louis XV granted […]

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