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 […]
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
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Neumeyer Consort entertains with Boismortier
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 […]
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Chamber Music all business
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 […]