As part of their commitment to reviving and restoring unknown or forgotten music scores, Hamonia del Parnàs is presenting a program of music by Spanish composers from the XVII and XVIII centuries. This music that is seldom heard live, is a sample of the extensive heritage of music of Hispanic origin from Europe and the Americas.
A release of great importance: the first time CD-issue of the Complete Works of Girolamo Frescobaldi. This edition provides a superb opportunity to discover this neglected master of the Baroque. The project is masterminded by the harpsichordist and organist Roberto Loreggian, and previous individual volumes of the series have been well received. This is there first ever complete edition of Frescobaldi’s music to be issued: a landmark on record, sure to be widely noticed by the musical press.
The box set 83:13, represents an innovative and bold new commitment of White and Black, as it is not common in the sector risk publish a work of this size, with 15 CDs in one box. But the label has chosen to make an effort: this album 83:13 wants to be a tribute and reminder of the past 30 years creating, editing, distributing dance music in Spain and in the world and has a comprehensive collection of topics that monitors progress dance music published by the company.
The first performance of Handel’s Ottone took place in London on 12 January 1723 at the King’s Theatre. Handel had finished composing the opera the previous summer, with the first draft completed on 10 August, but he had to make several revisions before the first performance took place…
This set presents the Complete Recordings made by Constantin Silvestri for EMI. The microphones offered this “fanatical idealist” the most favourable circumstances to let his particular talent blossom.