Enjoyment of Music

In the harp world, few figures are better known than Carlos Salzedo; however, in the larger musical world, and even among classical music enthusiast, his biography and personality are not sufficiently discussed and appreciated. For this reason, this Da Vinci Classics album is a very welcome addition to the existing discography, and will enhance the fame of this great musician and pedagogue.

Foreign Insult: English Baroque Music by Expatriate Composers - La Ricordanza
(G. F. Handel, F. Barsanti, G. Finger, J. C. Bach, N. Mattteis, C. F. Abel)
Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 339 MB | RS
Recorded: 5-7 Oct. 2004, Schloß Gifthorn, Germany | Released: 2006
Label: Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 505 1381-2 | TT: 65:58
La Ricordanza

Accurately titled or not, this is a superb recording of English Baroque music. It captures the crackling commercial energy that united the music of the Germans and Italians at work in the English capital. Most interesting of all are the four short selections from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes by Barsanti. Preceding Moore's Irish songs and Beethoven's and Haydn's arrangements of Scots and Irish songs by nearly 100 years, these are very early examples of musical exoticism. (James Manheim, All Music Guide)

The world of music has some resemblance with the natural world. Just as happens in nature with living beings, but at a much quicker pace, musical instruments, genres and styles are created, offered to the public, and then may succeed or not in conquering a place in the musical world. Success and popularity, furthermore, can be fleeting or stable, and their object, in turn, may remain more or less the same for a long time, or evolve. It is not always clear why a particular instrument or genre gains recognition, and another does not; instruments with beautiful timbres fail to survive, and others which are not substantially better become extremely widespread.