João de Sousa Carvalho, the premier Portuguese composer of the last half of the eighteenth century, trained in Italy before establishing a career in his home country because Italian music was held in such high regard in Portugal. There is little in his music to distinguish it from Italian music of the period. Testoride Argonauta (1780), like all ...
The Musical Sun of Southern Europe is a rather grandiose title for this enjoyable but highly specialized disc of keyboard music, most of it unknown outside Spain and Portugal. The sole composer familiar to most listeners here is Antonio Soler, who is represented by a single sonata (track 4). The rest of the music comes from his generation or the ...
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