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68 relations: Age of Enlightenment, Andreas Scholl, Anner Bylsma, Ben Heppner, Bob van Asperen, Bruno Weil, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Mackerras, Christopher Hogwood, Claudio Monteverdi, Dardanus (opera), Democracy, Edward Gardner (conductor), Elizabeth Wallfisch, Emanuel Ax, François-Joseph Gossec, Frans Brüggen, Georg Philipp Telemann, Gerald Finley, Giuseppe Verdi, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Gustav Leonhardt, Harry Bicket, Hector Berlioz, Henry Purcell, Historically informed performance, Ian Bostridge, Iván Fischer, Ivor Bolton, Jean-Philippe Rameau, John Butt (musician), Joseph Haydn, Kings Place, London, London Sinfonietta, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Marin Alsop, Mark Elder, Michael Chance, Monica Huggett, Orchestra, Oxford Town Hall, Philippe Herreweghe, Queen Elizabeth Hall, René Jacobs, Renée Fleming, Richard Wagner, Robin Ticciati, Roger Norrington, Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz), ..., Roundhouse (venue), Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, Sarah Connolly, Sigiswald Kuijken, Simon Rattle, Southbank Centre, Susan Graham, Symphony No. 83 (Haydn), The Proms, Thomas Hampson, Tristan und Isolde, Vespro della Beata Vergine, Viktoria Mullova, Violeta Urmana, Vladimir Jurowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Expand index (18 more) »
Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".
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Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
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Anner Bylsma
Anner Bylsma (born Anne Bijlsma 17 February 1934, The Hague) is a Dutch cellist who plays on both modern and period instruments in a historically informed style.
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Ben Heppner
Thomas Bernard (Ben) Heppner, CC (born January 14, 1956) is a Canadian tenor and broadcaster, now retired from singing, who specialized in opera and other classical works for voice.
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Bob van Asperen
Bob van Asperen (born 8 October 1947 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch harpsichordist and early keyboard instrument performer, as well as a conductor.
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Bruno Weil
Bruno Weil (born 24 November 1949, Hahnstätten) is a symphonic conductor.
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli, Cavaliere OMRI (born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist.
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Charles Mackerras
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.
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Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.
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Dardanus (opera)
Dardanus is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a French-language libretto by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère.
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Democracy
Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.
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Edward Gardner (conductor)
Edward Gardner OBE (born 22 November 1974) is an English conductor.
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Elizabeth Wallfisch
Elizabeth Wallfisch (née Hunt; born 28 January 1952) is an Australian Baroque violinist.
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Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born 8 June 1949) is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist.
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François-Joseph Gossec
François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.
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Frans Brüggen
Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Gerald Finley
Gerald Hunter Finley, (born January 30, 1960) is a Canadian baritone opera singer.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
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Gustav Leonhardt
Gustav Leonhardt (30 May 1928 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor.
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Harry Bicket
Harry Bicket (born 1961) is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
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Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived.
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Ian Bostridge
Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer.
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Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
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Ivor Bolton
Ivor Bolton (born 17 May 1958 in Blackrod, England) is an English conductor and harpsichordist.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.
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John Butt (musician)
John Butt, OBE, FRSE, FBA (born 17 November 1960, Solihull, England) is an orchestral and choral conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar.
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.
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Kings Place
Kings Place is a building in London’s Kings Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (March 1, 1954 – July 3, 2006) was an American mezzo-soprano.
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Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor and violinist.
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Mark Elder
Sir Mark Philip Elder, CH, CBE (born 2 June 1947) is a British conductor.
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Michael Chance
Michael Chance CBE (born 7 March 1955) is an English countertenor and the founder and Artistic Director of The Grange Festival.
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Monica Huggett
Monica Huggett (born 16 May 1953 in London, England) is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Oxford Town Hall
Oxford Town Hall is a public building in St Aldate's Street in central Oxford, England.
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Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances.
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René Jacobs
René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician.
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Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").
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Robin Ticciati
Robin Ticciati (born 16 April 1983 in London) is a British conductor of Italian ancestry.
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Roger Norrington
Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor.
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Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz)
Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839.
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Roundhouse (venue)
The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.
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Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.
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Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,500-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London.
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Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards
The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards are given annually for live classical music-making in the United Kingdom.
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Sarah Connolly
Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly DBE (born 13 June 1963) is an English mezzo-soprano.
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Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken (born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on authentic instruments.
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Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor.
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Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).
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Susan Graham
Susan Graham (born July 23, 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano.
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Symphony No. 83 (Haydn)
Symphony No.
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The Proms
The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
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Thomas Hampson
Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings.
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Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda, or Tristran and Ysolt) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg.
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Vespro della Beata Vergine
Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin; SV 206 and 206a) – more properly in Latin Vesperæ in Festis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, or casually Vespers of 1610 – is a musical composition by Claudio Monteverdi.
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Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Yurievna Mullova (Виктория Юрьевна Муллова; born 27 November 1959) is a Russian violinist.
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Violeta Urmana
Violeta Urmana (born 1961) is Lithuanian opera singer who has sung leading mezzo-soprano and soprano roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America.
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Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski (born 4 April 1972, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian conductor.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". The Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian conductor and pianist.
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References
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