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Bartolomeo Tromboncino [c.1470-1535] - Del tuo bel volto :



played by Becky Baxter

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Such beautiful stuff. I grew up taking classical guitar lessons. My father bought me an Ibanez classical guitar in 1972. I still have it, although one day I opened the case and the area where the tuning knobs are cracked. The top part, the wood cracked in half. Someday I will get that fixed as I have not been able to play any classical in a long time. At 12 I could do a decent Malaguena.

But this thread reminds me of all the great music that we will never hear. We will all go to our graves with unlistened music because there is so much.
 
Stefano Bernardi [1629] - Missa pro defunctis: Introitus (Requiem)



After rediscovering the music of Giovanni Croce, maestro di cappella at St Mark’s cathedral in Venice (A439), Ensembles Voces Suaves & Concerto Scirocco take us to Salzburg and put the spotlight on the Verona-born composer Stefano Bernardi, a contemporary of Monteverdi. Bernardi reached the peak of his career in Salzburg, when he was appointed the first Kapellmeister of its newly constructed cathedral, a position he held from 1628 to 1634. The Requiem, as well as a number of Motets by Bernardi, is recorded here for the very first time.
 
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Ralph Vaughan Williams [1939] - Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

Introduction and Theme: Adagio, B modal minor
Variant I: B modal minor
Variant II: Allegro moderato, B modal minor
Variant III: D modal minor
Variant IV: L'istesso tempo
Variant V: Adagio, B modal minor



Harp: Skaila Kanga
Conductor: Bryden Thomson
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vaughan Williams composed this work on commission from the British Council to be played at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. The first performance was by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall on 10 June 1939.​
 
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