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Project Harmonia Mundi - Part 4  Music

Posted by Flush at Sept. 26, 2007


Johann Sebastian Bach: 11 Superb Recordings on Harmonia Mundi
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 11CD/5.13GB | RS.com



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Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Vivaldi: Flute Concertos & Recorder Concertos (2002)

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Vivaldi: Flute Concertos & Recorder Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 528 Mb | Total time: 60:03+60:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 2907340.41 | Recorded: 1988, 1991

When the German transverse flute found its place in Italy and was accepted by the Catholic church as a suitable replacement for the proscribed recorder, Antonio Vivaldi took to it with great enthusiasm. His flute concertos mark a point of departure, coming after he had completed his 40 bassoon concertos and virtually all of the string concertos. Although some of these pieces were reworkings of material previously composed for recorder, Vivaldi came to capitalize on new techniques he learned from Ignazio Siber, the flute instructor at the Ospedale della Pietà. Of Vivaldi's 15, the 7 flute concertos presented here were freshly written for the instrument.
Flanders' Recorder Quartet - Early Italian Recorder Music, English Consort Music (2005)

Flanders' Recorder Quartet - Early Italian Recorder Music, English Consort Music (2005)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:09:26 | 521 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog: 92504

Over the past three or four decades early music has changed from elitist and hardly known to being widely performed and appreciated. With the growing popularity of early music the recorder has emancipated from that rather ill-reputed “instrument to introduce children to music” to a serious musical instrument in its own right. Several highly successful recorder ensembles and soloists are proof of this change.