Georg Philipp Telemann was not only one of the most prolific composers in musical history but also one of the most cosmopolitan. Some idea of the wide range…
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN - Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord - Dorian Komanoff Bandy (Violin) - Paul Cienniwa (Harpsichord) - 687606010826 - Released: October 2018 - Whaling City Sound WCS108
Telemann Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord Frankfurt, 1715 Dorian Komanoff Bandy & Paul Cienniwa
Telemann (1681-1767) was one of music’s great mavericks, an aesthete with a restless mind and cosmopolitan tastes. During his nearly seven-decade career, he sampled…
On August 19, 2018, I performed Karl Henning's Plotting (y is the new x), Op. 116 with excellent violinist Mei Mei Luo. The performance was recorded for YouTube, and you can view it here:
In late summer, I created an edition of "The X Commandments," John Farmer's 1592 setting of a versified Ten Commandments that appeared in "The Whole Booke of Psalmes, With Their Wonted Tunes, As They Are Sung In Churches, Composed Into…
A former high school student from the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School studied Brahms' Second Rhapsody with me this past spring. This YouTube video is of her playing it at Eastman a few weeks ago:
Last week, I played a short Bach program for Emmanuel Music's Lindsey Chapel Series in the stunning chapel. Photographer Steve Dunwell was there to document the pre-concert excitement:
Back in the very early 2000's, I arranged the first Kyrie couplet from François Couperin's organ "Mass for the Convents." My arrangement, originally for organ alone, is a verbatim setting of Couperin's excellent part-writing with the addition of the text…Read more
I will be leaving New England to begin a new position as Director of Music at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, Florida. The position begins on June 1, so I will be moving at the end of May.…Read more
New Zealand logger Mike Crowl wrote a very nice blog post about my book, By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music. He writes, "This has been the most helpful book I've come across in a long time, in terms…Read more
I will be leading a community singalong Messiah in New Bedford, MA on Sunday, November 27 at 4pm. This charity event will be made up of singers from across the community, and you are cordially invited to come sing or…
Towards the end of the summer, I was asked to participate in a demo recording for Les Enfants d'Orphée. Little did I know that it was a video demo! The end result is here: https://youtu.be/oG2-NO8FaGA
Back in June, baroque violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy and I recorded Telemann for a new CD to be released on Whaling City Sound. I blogged about that then (http://paulcienniwa.com/news/blog/preparing-to-record-telemann), and now Dorian has blogged about the editing process.…Read more
LITTLE COMPTON — ALLISON will perform music from their debut CD, “Volume One,” featuring songs of Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Graham Nash, and more on Aug. 4 at St. Andrews…