His life was lived in time of war, plague, and famine. He did not shelter in place. No music was cloaked more darkly in the allure and peril of travel than that of the enigmatic seventeenth-century ...

Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: $15| ArkivMusic: $19 | Qobuz download: £8 - 13 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 Cembalista Alina Rotaru has a new disc out, “Parthenia” (Sono Luminus), the title of which the ...

The season’s forced joyfulness pushes many towards melancholy. All those carols and crooners, the triumphant blasts of angelic trumpets from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah, the smarmy ...

Johann Jakob Froberger wanted all his music burned after his death because he didn't think anyone else would be able to play it well enough. He would surely have been reassured by the deep ...

Die Grundlagen der Musik erlernte Froberger bei seinem Vater Basilius, Sänger und Kapellmeister der Württembergischen Hofkapelle in Stuttgart. Die ersten Schritte ins Berufsleben ging er als junger ...

This is the fourth and final volume of a series devoted to Froberger’s complete Suites, nearly 50 in total over eight CDs recorded over six years. They include the contents of the two autograph ...

Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His ...

Harpsichordist Sophie Yates looks at the life and music of the German keyboard virtuoso Johann Jakob Froberger, who was born 400 years ago this month.

Er soll ein freundlicher Mensch christlichen Lebenswandels gewesen sein, bekannt für sein ausgeglichenes Wesen, seine gute Laune und einen "herrlich sinnreichen Geist". So wird der im Mai 1616 ...

Eine Zeit lang war es ihm genauso ergangen: Johann Jakob Froberger. Kurz vor seinem 51. Geburtstag ist er gestorben, als hochdekorierter Meister. Dennoch ging er nach seinem Tod für Jahrzehnte und ...