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François Couperin - Chamber Music (Complete) - Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (2004) {7CD Box Set Brilliant Classics 92178}
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© 2004 Brilliant Classics | 92178
Classical / Baroque / Chamber Music

Thinking of Baroque music our minds turn nearly automatically to the German giants Bach, Handel, Telemann and the like, or to sunnier parts in Italy where Vivaldi, Corelli and Albinoni wrote their concertos: but one nearly forgets that also in France great music was composed in the Baroque! One of the most important composers was Francois Couperin (1668-1733), imperial court composer of the most charming, graceful music: look at the French pictures of that time and you can imagine what kind of music.

Reinhard Keiser - Der blutige und sterbende Jesus - Cantus Thuringia, Capella Thuringia, Bernhard Klapprott (2019) {CPO5552592}
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© 2019 CPO | 555 259-2
Classical / Baroque

Reinhard Keiser’s Der blutige und sterbende Jesus is not only the very first German Passion oratorio but also a highly suspenseful contribution to the Passion season. Lost for many years, it is now available for listening on CD in the revised version of 1729. The dramatic and musical design of Keiser’s work is astonishing. As in the Italian oratorio type that gained currency after 1700, there is no Evangelist or other narrator, which means that the work has a purely dramatic structure.

”Brandi Carlile” is the self-titled debut album from folk rock singer, Brandi Carlile.

George Frideric Handel - Belshazzar [HWV 61] (3xCD)
Kölner Kammerchor / Collegium Cartusianum / Peter Neumann
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Label/Cat#: MDG 332 1079-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2001 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Style: Oratorio

From bar one, I felt an assurance and naturalness about the rhythms, a clarity and tonal richness in the orchestral and vocal texture, a stylishness of phrasing and embellishment, and a sheer zest and power of dramatic presentation that add up to a totally convincing and gripping whole. […] Neumann and his team have excelled themselves, and so has Handel, and anyone who thinks 18th-century music wanting in musico-dramatic force is urged to acquire this magnificent set without delay.

VA - Bosnia: Echoes from an Endangered World
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Label/Cat#: Smithsonian Folkways # SF40407 | Country/Year: US 1993
Genre: World Music | Style: Folk

This compilation drawn from both field work and recordings on the then Yugoton label gives a sense of the richness of Bosnian Muslim culture before the catastrophe. The music is admirably varied, ranging from mid-'80s local pop to shepherds' songs and country-dance music.