Beethoven/ Segerstam/ Lehesvuori - Cantata on the Death Format:CD Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia

Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is the first vocal album in the world to be recorded entirely in live virtual acoustics

and orchestral musician in music ranging from classical to contemporary and from "world" to her own arrangements and compositions

Australia One of Montreal's most prolific and influential poets teams up with all-female choir to create a CD most reminiscent of the first Leonard Cohen album Musical backing from some of the key figures in the Montreal jazz and avant garde underground

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Beethoven/ Segerstam/ Lehesvuori - Cantata on the Death Format:CD Lost Voices of Hagia SophiaBy the time of Emperor Joseph II's death in 1790 Beethoven was a member of the court musical establishment in Bonn. To mark the occasion, Beethoven was commissioned to write to cantatas, one to mourn Joseph's death and the other to celebrate the accession to the throne of Emperor Leopold II. Although Beethoven was only 19 years old at the time, both works show the embryonic marks of his greatness: intense expression and control of structure in one,