Baron Act 2023

A native of Italy, Paola Baron received her Master’s Degree with highest honors from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Sarah O’Brien. She has also studied at the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique in Lyon with Fabrice Pierre.

A native of Italy, Paola Baron received her Master’s Degree with highest honors from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Sarah O’Brien. She has also studied at the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique in Lyon with Fabrice Pierre. She has been Principal Harpist of Teatro Opera and Ballet in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Orchestra Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Italy), Orchester der Tiroler Festspiele (Austria), and the Birmingham Royal Ballet (USA), among others. In 2002, she won the Second Prize at the Victor Salvi Competiton, the most prestigious harp competition in Italy, and in 2007, she won the International Competition of the Slovene Harp Association.

Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Antal Doráti and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. 18 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets. Highlights include: Performances of Bartok’s Suite No.1, 2 Pictures, Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta – “Bartok was in his [Doráti’s] blood-stream”, wrote critic Robert Layton. And recordings of works by a trio of composers Doráti knew well and worked with: Strauss, Stravinsky and Copland.

A Window into the Past - Great Composers of the Piano Music from the Golden-Age. Piano Music from the Golden Age by Peter Phillips.

Conductor Peter Phillips is one of the leading lights in the world of British choral music, best known as the director of the prolific and durable group The Tallis Scholars. He is also a noted scholar, radio and television presenter who has done much to popularize Renaissance music, a music label founder and executive, and an educator. Phillips was born on October 15, 1953, in Southampton, England. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford University, as an organ scholar. By the time he graduated in 1975, he had gained a grounding not only in choral and organ music but in music history, studying with two of the leading British musicologists of the day, Denis Arnold and David Wulstan. In 1973, Phillips assembled a group of singers from Oxford and Cambridge to perform Renaissance music and named them The Tallis Scholars in honor of English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. The term "Scholars" was not merely fanciful, for the singers were all choral scholars from the various colleges of the two universities. Phillips held teaching posts at Oxford, the Royal College of Music, and Trinity College of Music, but the activities of The Tallis Scholars expanded after they established themselves formally in 1978.