and basses—captured both the spiritual depth and intricate beauty of the Baroque style. While the positive organ was more limited in tonal range than a grand organ, its rich resonance filled the ...
In fact that style, which, following Osbert Lancaster ... ‘As an expression of sophisticated melancholy’, she writes, ‘it bears comparison with the English baroque of post-Civil War cavalier verse: ...
That might sound like a light plate of rather scholarly, even austere, hors d’oeuvres. Not all all: Bicket’s enterprising first half proved that late-17th-century festivities might uncork composers’ ...
In the Bach Magnificat, the English Consort’s ten singers (including soloists) and 17 instrumentalists managed to fill the hall with a resonant joy where necessary, while still making each voice count ...
Dumfries House, located in Ayrshire County in southwest Scotland, is considered one of the most luxurious houses in Britain, built in the 18th century, extended over an area of 20,000 square meters ...