These recordings of Baroque sonatas and suites for oboe and continuo were originally released on two LPs in 1978 and 1980. The early date might dissuade some buyers, for it was just around this time that a new generation of players trained in playing period instruments began to tease out the individual personalities of the Baroque composers, ...
France's Naïve label continues to reissue recordings from the catalog of the small Opus 111 imprint, many of them small gems of Baroque and Classical music. Here is one from the fine Belgian historical-performance ensemble Il Fondamento. Johann Adolf Hasse is remembered mostly as an opera composer, but he also contributed copiously to the large ...
Throughout the Renaissance, and even into the Enlightenment, there were a number of skirmishes and a few instances of out and out war between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. The defeat of Ottoman forces in 1683 set the stage for the slow decline of the Empire, although it did not officially dissolve until 1923. Among the most successful infantry ...
It is not difficult to include Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga's entire orchestral output on CD, such as it is. The "Spanish Mozart" produced only three overtures and a symphony before his premature death at age 19. Jordi Savall produced a great disc of the symphony, but included only two of the three overtures, for Astrée with Le Concert des Nations ...
Masterpieces Played by Masters asserts the back cover of this reissue confidently. That gives the wrong idea of the flavor of this little disc of chamber music from the middle eighteenth century, originally recorded in 1978. The instruments are all either of the relevant period or copies of such, making this one of the earlier applications of ...
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