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★★★★ Ordered to mourn a popular queen, George Frideric Handel raided his own scores for reusable tunes. He was commissioned on December 5, 1737 for a funeral on the 12th — a week to compose 40 minutes of music with texts of his own choosing. This was not a negotiable deadline. He furnished the opening lamentations — “The ways of Zion do mourn” and “How are the mighty fall’n” with music from his Chandos Anthems and some older occasional pieces, slowed down for solemnity.
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Saraste firma una de las mejores integrales de Sibelius de las que hay noticia

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Wit as well as social conscience

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Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera) ★★★★ A Belgian-Swiss quartet with a 50-50 gender split places “the promotion of music written by women composers” at the top of its mission statement. Resistant as I am to social agendas in music, the content of this album triumphs over its ideology. Four women composers are represented. Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) was the only woman among Les Six acolytes of the iconoclast Erik Satie.
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