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- [Contact Us](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/contact-us/) - Contact Us Name(Required) First Last Email(Required) Enter Email Confirm Email Comments(Required)Please let us know what's on your mind. Have a question for us? Ask away.CAPTCHA Get In Touch Email Address brianrobins@earlymusicworld.com
- [Gustav Leonhardt Interview](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/gustav-leonhardt-interview/) - An Interview with Gustav Leonhardt The death of Gustav Leonhardt at the age of 83 on 16 January 2012 marked the passing of one of the musical giants of the 20th century. I have always felt immensely privileged to have been the last person to conduct an in-depth interview with Leonhardt, an occasion that took
- [Staging Handel](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/staging-handel/) - Staging Handel – Now … and Then We enter the theatre to see an opera by Handel (or increasingly one of his contemporaries such as Porpora or Vinci). The curtain rises on an austere, angular, darkly lit stage on which tubular frames feature somewhere on the set that will serve for all three acts, possibly
- [Whatever Happened to HIP?](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/whatever-happened-to-hip/) - Whatever Happened to HIP? The views in this article – many of them gestating over a long period – have been inspired by my work as a specialist early music historian and critic. The very word ‘criticism’ is starting to sound old-fashioned and indeed I have been berated in print for referring to myself as
- [Opera and the Age of Arrogance](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/opera-and-the-age-of-arrogance/) - Opera and the Age of Arrogance The 21st century is an age of arrogance that manifests itself in a variety of forms, some interlinked. It is arrogance born of the fallacious belief that mankind has attained a state of universal, all-pervading wisdom surpassing that of the past. Often with little or no justification we believe
- [A Handel Letter](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/a-handel-letter/) - A Letter from the Earl of Shaftsbury Concerning Handel’s Armino I was at Arminius last Saturday […] Mr Handel has a much larger orquestre […] than last year & the loss of Castrucio is abundantly supplied by Martini […] [1] The overture is a very fine one & the fuge I think as far as
- [Early Opera: Production and Counter-production](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/early-opera-production-and-counter-production/) - Early Opera: Production and Counter-production By Julie and Frans Muller Sir, – May I air with you a grievance concerning opera production which I think a number of opera enthusiasts might well share? The grievance is that opera producers today are pressing to an extreme a principle of which the motives are excellent but the
- [The Revenge of Agris Culturovics](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/the-revenge-of-agris-culturovics/) - The Revenge of Agris Culturovics Musicologists the world over are reeling with excitement about the discovery of a concerto for the rare combination of bass tromba marina, bass viol and barouche. It is the work of the long forgotten Latvian composer, Agris Culturovics (?1678-?1763). Culturovics was born in the coastal city of Liepāja, the 27th
- [Catch and Glee Culture](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/catch-and-glee-culture/) - Catch and Glee Culture in Eighteenth-Century England Brian Robins Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1 84383 212 7 ix + 180pp. Price: UK £5o.00; US $90 cloth Published: 2006 UK customers click here! US customers click here! The rise of the catch and glee in Georgian England represents a rare example of indigenous forms establishing themselves
- [Hasse & Zelenka's Dresden](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/hasse-zelenkas-dresden/) - Dresden in the Time of Zelenka and Hasse “Something choice and excellent” On the evening of 13 September 1731 a new opera was lavishly performed at Dresden. Cleofide was the work of Johann Adolf Hasse, recently appointed Kapellmeister to the Saxon court. Hasse, already of Europe-wide fame, was a notable capture for Dresden and the occasion must
- [The English Viol Consort](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/the-english-viol-consort/) - The English Viol Consort in the Tudor Era Over the centuries English music has rarely trodden the path of innovation. It is true that at the start of the fifteenth century Dunstaple and the so-called “English countenance” briefly pointed Europe in a new direction, inspiring the great theorist Johannes Tinctoris to proclaim the appearance of
- [Luca Marenzio](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/luca-marenzio/) - Luca Marenzio Imagine taking a time machine back to the England of 1600. As an interested observer of the musical scene, you naturally seek out the company of musicians. One evening in a London tavern the talk turns to madrigals. “And who in your view is the greatest madrigal composer?”, you ask the assembled company.
- [Neapolitan Comic Opera](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/neapolitan-comic-opera/) - The Rise of Neapolitan Comic Opera During the eighteenth century Naples was one of the largest and most vibrant cities in Europe. Hot, dirty and overcrowded, it was a city of teeming life and colour that flowed from court and church to the streets. To the French traveller Charles De Brosses, writing in 1739, it
- [Gainsborough and  Music](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/gainsborough-and-music/) - The Genesis of The Creation In the middle of August 1795 Joseph Haydn left England for the last time. His two visits (from January 1791 to July 1792 and February 1794 until August 1795) had occupied most of the previous four years. For the 63-year old composer, his entire life up to the point he
- [The Creation and The Seasons](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/the-creation-and-the-seasons/) - The Genesis of The Creation In the middle of August 1795 Joseph Haydn left England for the last time. His two visits (from January 1791 to July 1792 and February 1794 until August 1795) had occupied most of the previous four years. For the 63-year old composer, his entire life up to the point he
- [William Lawes](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/william-lawes/) - William Lawes – 1602-1645 Wednesday, September 24, 1645. The scene is Chester, in the north-west of England. Since 1642 the country has been involved in bloody civil war between those loyal to the king, Charles I, and the forces of Parliament. The Royalist city of Chester has been under a state of siege or semi-siege
- [A Brief Introduction to Baroque Opera](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/a-brief-introduction-to-baroque-opera/) - A Brief Introduction to Baroque Opera The story of Baroque opera is a story of lavish splendour, of the exotic and spectacular, of the marvellous, of superstar singers with superstar egos and incomes, of intrigue and dodgy business dealings, and … some of the most sublime music ever written. It starts as a very Renaissance
- [Purcell's London](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/purcells-london/) - Purcell’s London “The walls had long since ceased their original function, of protecting the city against siege and attack, and seventeenth-century London was expanding in all directions. The City proper was densely populated, with narrow streets and medieval wooden buildings blotting out the sky with overhanging storeys. A mass of small ships sold goods of
- [Bach’s Sacred Cantatas](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/bachs-sacred-cantatas/) - Bach’s Sacred Cantatas Within the output of certain composers there are seminal groups of works whose sheer volume has ensured for them neglect out of all proportion to their value. No more notable example exists than that of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the body of works that stands at the very heart of his
- [La Clemenza  di Tito](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/la-clemenza-di-tito/) - La Clemenza di Tito: Mozart’s Operatic Failure? Among Mozart’s mature operas, none has been subjected to harsher critical scrutiny than his “final” stage work, La clemenza di Tito.[1] Only during the past thirty years or so has a new, revisionist spirit of re-assessment taken place, one still sufficiently incomplete for both Florence Badol-Bertrand and René
- [Mozart's Salzburg](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/mozarts-salzburg/) - Mozart’s Salzburg “Salzburg is no place for my talents. In the first place, professional musicians there are not held in much consideration; and secondly, one hears nothing, there is no theatre, no opera; and even if they wanted one, who is there to sing?” Thus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a letter written in the summer
- [John Dowland - Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/john-dowland-lachrimae-or-seaven-teares/) - John Dowland – Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch/Upon the lute doth ravish human sense. Richard Barnfield (1597) We know nothing of the ancestry of John Dowland, nor his date of birth or baptism. Claims made at various times that he was born in either Westminster, London or Dalkey
- [Regietheater- The Death Of Opera?](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/regietheater-the-death-of-opera/) - Regietheater-The Death Of Opera Opera is sick. Very sick. Formerly handsome and noble, its once elegant features have over recent years become ever more contorted and distorted beneath a toxic, suppurating excrescence commonly known as Regietheater. That some dispute the validity of the use of the word is in the context neither here nor there;
- [The John Marsh Journals, Vol. 2](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/the-john-marsh-journals-vol-2/) - The John Marsh Journals, Vol. 2 The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828) Edited, introduced and annotated by Brian Robins Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, NJ ISBN: 978-1-57647-173-9 xii + 429pp First Published: 2013 Currently out of print. It is sometimes possible to find second-hand copies The extensive journals of the dilettante English composer John
- [Catch and Glee Culture in Eighteenth-Century England](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/catch-and-glee-culture-in-eighteenth-century-england/) - Catch and Glee Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. Brian Robins Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1 84383 212 7 ix + 180pp. Price: UK £5o.00; US $90 cloth Published: 2006 The rise of the catch and glee in Georgian England represents a rare example of indigenous forms establishing themselves within a wide musical and social context. This
- [The John Marsh Journals, Vol. 1](https://www.earlymusicworld.com/the-john-marsh-journals-vol-1/) - The John Marsh Journals, Vol. 1 ‘Now re-printed by Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY14092 (editor@mellonpress.com) – $359.95. The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828) Edited, introduced and annotated by Brian Robins xiv + 798pp First Published: 1998 Currently out of print but I’m delighted to announce that an e-book will shortly be available – if