Elizabeth Kenny Ars Onga

Sister Kenny (1946) Movies

Posted by fekmax at April 16, 2015

Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.

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Theatre of the Ayre - The Masque of Moments (2017) [TR24][OF] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 15, 2017

Elizabeth Kenny and Theatre of the Ayre revel in some of the most extraordinary music of the seventeenth century. Focusing on the ayre—the central part of a masque—The Masque of Moments offers a fascinating glimpse into a world of audacious and experimental virtuosity.

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Ensemble Scholastica & Rebecca Bain - Ars elaboratio (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at May 25, 2017

Montreal's female vocal group Ensemble Scholastica makes its ATMA Classique recording debut with Ars elaboratio, a program of newly composed elaborations on medieval liturgical songs. The original songs were chosen from the medieval plainchant repertoire in homage to the group's favourite saints: Scholastica, champion of education; Cecilia, patron saint of music; Catherine of Alexandria, champion of justice and female wisdom; and Saint John the Baptist, patron to the ensemble's home province of Québec.

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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano - Shakespeare Songs (2016) Music

Posted by Designol at May 22, 2024

Grammy® Award winners Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano have been working together on the stage and in the recording studio for over 20 years. Together they have produced award-winning recordings and played sold out concert halls all over the world to huge critical acclaim. Now they embark on a project marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a new album out in September. Shakespeare Songs celebrates the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired. Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky.

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Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor - Biber: Sonaten über die Mysterien des Rosenkranzes (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 15, 2021

Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor - Biber: Sonaten über die Mysterien des Rosenkranzes (2021)
FLAC tracks | 02:00:16 | 580 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Arcana

Best-selling Arcana title, a reference recording of a milestone of baroque violin literature.Recorded in the beautiful acoustics of the parish church of Hallstatt (Austria), where Gunar Letzbor was born, this personal and dramatic interpretation of Biber's most popular work, usually referred to today as the Mistery or Rosary sonatas, comes back after years of absence.Gunar Letzbor makes his journey through the mysteries or events in the life of the Virgin Mary using two different violins and accompanied by no fewer than six musicians playing kaleidoscopic combinations of harpsichord, organ, lute, archlute, two bass viols and double bass a big continuo group which enhances and intensifies the changing moods of the cycle.

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Peter Whelan, Ensemble Marsyas - Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel, Parte Seconda (2020) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 27, 2021

Following the success of its 2017 recording Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel, Ensemble Marsyas returns to the music of the Italian composer Francesco Barsanti who made his home in eighteenth-century Scotland. Having already explored Barsantis Concerti grossi-Parte Prima, double horn concerto and his arrangements of Scottish tunes, fans will be pleased to be able to hear more music from this engaging composer. The new album will feature Barsantis Concerti grossi -Parte Seconda, composed and published in Edinburgh in 1742, thus completing the Opus 3 collection. Another set from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes, featuring Elizabeth Kenny and Colin Scobie, plus Handels Overture to Atalanta, which was performed by the Edinburgh Musical Society, complete the programme.

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Antonio Pappano & Ian Bostridge - Shakespeare Songs (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 23, 2017

Antonio Pappano & Ian Bostridge - Shakespeare Songs (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 66:39 minutes | 1.10 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Grammy Award-winners Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano have been working together on the stage and in the recording studio for over 20 years. Now they embark on a project marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a new album out in September. Shakespeare Songs celebrates the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired.

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