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Georg Friedrich Händel - Franz Schubert - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Johann Sebastian Bach - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel - Dieterich Buxtehude - Joseph Haydn

'Willst du dein Herz mir schenken'

Ton Koopman / Tini Mathot / Klaus Mertens

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917282320
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Catalog number: CC 72823
Releasedate: 07-06-19
- Here is a disc celebrating several anniversaries of three great musicians who are also great friends.
- Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot and Klaus Mertens select and collect some of the finest pieces of their previous recordings and join them to some pieces recorded last February.
- A homage to three great artists offered at a special price.
- Midprice 40th Anniversary release 
 
2019 – An Anniversary Year. For three exceptional musicians 2019 brings cause for great joy and gratitude for several reasons.
Ton Koopman, internationally renowned as a harpsichordist, organist, conductor, professor and musicologist, celebrates his 75th birthday.
He also looks back on 40 highly successful years with the ensemble he founded, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

His wife, Tini Mathot, an outstandingly gifted harpsichord and fortepiano virtuoso as well as a very successful producer of countless international CDs, celebrates her 70th birthday.

Klaus Mertens, acclaimed for over four decades as an international concert singer with an admirably wide repertoire stretching from Monteverdi to contemporary composers, also celebrates his 70th birthday. “As the ideal conveyor of Bach’s cantatas and passion texts…” he also receives the Bach-Medaille of the city of Leipzig in 2019.

As if this were not sufficient cause to celebrate an anniversary, these three musicians cap it all by looking back on 40 years of successful and amicable music-making together in concerts and recording studios by presenting an anniversary CD as well as several chamber concerts.