Frans Bruggen

J. P. Rameau - Les Boréades & Dardanus (Suites) - Frans Brüggen, The Orchestra of the 18th Century
Classical | APE + Cue | 1 CD, covers, booklet | 245 MB RS
Philips - 10/1990

"A mythic tale of a young queen who chooses to abdicate her throne rather than be forced into a marriage with a descendant of Boreas, god of the North Wind.
Les Boréades was abandoned in rehearsals at the Paris Opera in 1763 for reasons unclear to this day. Rameau died the following year and the work disappeared from puplic view."

"Dardanus was first performed at the Académie de musique in Paris on November 19, 1739. It received 26 performances, mainly because of the support from Rameau's followers in the dispute between the styles of Rameau and Lully.
Critics accused Rameau's original opera of lacking a coherent plot. The inclusion of the sea monster also violated the French operatic convention of having a clear purpose for encounters with supernatural beings."

Frans Brüggen Edition Vol. 2 - Italian recorder sonatas
Classical | Easy CD-DA | APE, CUE, No LOG | 1 CD, Covers, booklet | 345 Mb RS
1995 Teldec

I learned to love the recorder with this cd (of course many years ago); may be is a little old fashion in style, but stills there as a reference point to every recorder player in the world.

This unusual release, recorded in 1975, attempts to shed light on the numerous problems concerning the nature and indeed authorship of the flute sonatas by, or not by, Bach. The artistry of these musicians is, as we might expect, compelling, but in their attempt to segregate authentic Bach from what are often supposed to be spurious flute sonatas they have, in common parlance, 'come a cropper'. (CRD CRDIOI4-15, 8/75). N.A..

Six years of recording silence is about to come to an end! Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century are making their return in style and once more this is in partnership with Glossa – and within The Grand Tour collection (now provided with a brand new design), a cooperation which provided the home for all the orchestra's productions between 1997 and 2002. Five new titles are planned over the next 18 months, releases which are bound to be enthusiastically welcomed by the numerous devotees all over the world of this inspiring orchestra who have been continuing to enjoy the four or five tours each year that Brüggen and his musicians have been making.

One of the best period instrument cycles.