If the problem of organizing music for your Christmas party seems daunting, take a page from the book of the 17th century Duchesse de Guise and commission your own — or simply throw the products of ...
The vengeful gods of ancient Greece devised devilishly clever punishments. The hunter Actaeon found that out when he glimpsed Artemis bathing in a pool. The goddess, her chastity offended, transformed ...
On Thursday night, those of us who have never attended Christmas services in 1690s Paris got a transfixing taste of the musical side at least, when William Christie and Les Arts Florissants paid one ...
The descent of Orpheus into the underworld, a familiar subject taken from Ovid and celebrating the power of music, was turned into a two-act opera around 1686-7 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, better ...
Marc-Antoine Charpentier était né à Paris, non point en 1634, comme on le dit communément, mais vers 1628. On ne sait à peu près rien des premières années de sa vie, si ce n'est qu'il partit pour l'I ...
Overshadowed in the late 17th century by his politically skilful contemporary Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier is now escaping from his long shadow: the recent tremendous ENO production of his Medea ...
Lucie Skeaping explores music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who wrote arguably some of the most engaging Christmas music of the French baroque, including the Messe de Minuit. Show more Lucie Skeaping's ...
Marc-Antoine Charpentier is Donald Macleod's featured composer this week. It’s just a case of bad timing for 17th-century French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier that he happened to be born a decade ...
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