Tag: Patricia Clark
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Gay: The Beggar’s Opera
In 1977, Musical Heritage Society issued their landmark recording of the complete music from John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera”, bringing together all 69 numbers from the groundbreaking Baroque “ballad opera” with historically informed accompaniment under the direction of groundbreaking early music conductor Denis Stevens and featuring Nigel Rogers, a prominent champion of early music for…
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The Cries of London and Music in Honor of Queen Elizabeth I
Denis Stevens (1922-2004) was a musicians musician — musicologist, conductor, professor, and producer. He focused on early music for much of his career, and during his tenure as a professor at Columbia University during the 1960s and ’70s partnered with American independent label Musical Heritage Society to make recordings with two ensembles he created, the…
