Jean Rondeau - Gradus ad ParnassumAspiring to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses, Jean Rondeau explores the possibilities of the harpsichord in music composed over more than 400 years much of it for the piano. He pays tribute to the Austrian composer Johann Joseph Fux, who in 1725 published the original Gradus ad Parnassum, an influential treatise on counterpoint, and to Muzio Clementi, whose similarly titled collection of piano studies came a century later. The

especially about quartet works: Polish-Austrian violinist Dominika Falger (leader of the 2nd violin section of the Wiener Symphoniker)

Messiah quickly became the composer's most successful work

French vocalist

and Plainte

Soundsystem and Stereolithic

In the streets of Antigua shortly following WWII

Inspired by the practice of Nuove Musiche advocated by Caccini in 1602

He was the pupil of Rued Langgaard

even some jazzy titles

These are world premiere recordings

in the 21st century they pioneered the electronic opera before delivering 2017's pop masterpiece Hippopotamus

Maybe everything has been going to such shit lately because Barbara Manning has been hibernating