CONTEMPORARY BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL MUSIC
CONTEMPORARY BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL MUSIC
"Music of the baroque and classical eras has enchanted audiences throughout the ages with its lasting beauty and harmony. In the condensed form of a short rondeau, a ten minute concerto or sonata, some of our dearest hopes and loves seem to be crystallized".
- Hendrik Bouman
In our times new generations of musicians have picked up the torch of early music and with the aid of period instruments and the application of historic playing techniques have revealed its original sound and meaning.
It was completely natural for musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries to compose, to improvise and create variations ad infinitum, as well as to perform.
Would you not agree therefore, that we may also honour the heritage of the great masters - its inherent sublimity, the semantics of its symbolism, the clarity of its sonorities, the wealth of its spontaneous ornamentation, the swaying rhythms of its dances and the evocative gestures of its pantomimes - by composing anew in the idioms they held dear.
To embrace again this wonderful integrality, which in our time is still current in most musical genres the world over, represents for me a logical and necessary evolution in the authenticity movement in early music to which I have contributed throughout my career as soloist, accompanist, conductor, educator and since over a decade, as improviser and composer of baroque and classical music." - Hendrik Bouman
Music: "Largo for Juppes" for violin and obligato harpsichord composed and performed by Hendrik Bouman with his colleague, baroque violinist Hajo Bäss, for whom he wrote the composition.
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