J.C. Pepusch - Concertos & Ouvertures for London

26 tracks - MP3 192 Kbps - RAR 90 Mb

Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752) was probably something of a child prodigy and Ernst Ludwig Gerber records that he received an appointment as harpsichordist to the Prussian Court at Berlin by the age of 14. Regardless of this and other successes in the theatre, Pepusch was most highly esteemed in his own lifetime as a composer of concertos. Georg Philipp Telemann considered him as one of the best six German composers. As with Handel, later Germans and Britons both claimed Pepusch as their own. Pepusch is best remembered today for his contribution to The Beggar’s Opera (1728), for which he composed a fine overture. Apart from that overture, none of his other pieces had received commercial recordings until today. It is our hope that this CD goes some distance to remind audiences why Pepusch was once so highly regarded across Europe as a fine composer of inventive and dramatic concertos.

Uploaded - FileFactory

contents:

The Beggar’s Opera: Overture
Venus and Adonis: Overture
Concerto á 6
Kinga Gáborjáni (cello) & Sally Holman (bassoon)
Concerto Grosso á 6
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
Concerto Grosso in B flat
Tassilo Erhardt (solo violin)
Concerto á 5
Mark Baigent (oboe)
Concerto in A minor
Tassilo Erhardt (solo violin)
Concerto in A major
Tassilo Erhardt (solo violin)

 

The Harmonious Society Of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen

Tassilo Erhardt, violin
Kinga Gáborjáni, cello
Mark Baigent, oboe
Sally Holman, bassoon
Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet

Ben Sansom, Felicity Broome-Skelton, Eleanor Harrison, violins
Alexandria Lawrence, Dan Shilladay, Joanne Miller, violas
David Wright, harpsichord
Belinda Paul, oboe
Robert Rawson, double bass & direction