"Giulio Cesare" is the most famous and popular of Handel's many operas. In fact, for a long time it was the only one surviving in the repertoire, and brilliant productions of it in the 1960s were responsible for inciting interest in other Handel operas. Giulio Cesare contains perhaps a greater variety of beautiful arias and choruses than any other Handel opera, and has one of the best plots. This 1989 recording stars contralto Martine Dupuy, very famous in France but little known in the Western hemisphere. She made a sterling reputation in Baroque opera as well as the opere serie of Rossini, in which she has been adjudged incomparable.
Best of initial editions of Prog Exhibition is inside this massive 2CD project. Prog Exhibition is most important progressive music festival internationally wellknow. Few examples in this product: PFM-Premiata Forneria Marconi, the italian progressive rock band, with special feat. Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull leader. Aldo Tagliapietra, Tony Pagliuca and Tolo Marton (ex Orme) with David Cross, King Crimson violin. Osanna, wellknown band, with Gianni Leone (Balletto di Bronzo) and David Jackson (Van Der Graaf Generator). Nuova Raccomandata Ricevuta di Ritorno with Thijs Van Leer , leader of Focus (from Holland). The band Oak with Maartin Allcock (Jethro Tull 1989-1991). Balletto di Bronzo with Richard Sinclair (Caravan and Camel bass and vocalist )…
Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel sparkle in this new release of Handel's forgotten masterpiece Parnasso in testa, recorded shortly before their hugely successful Netherlands premiere of the opera in November 2016.
Cet enregistrement, comme les mémorables Fées du Rhin d'Offenbach, chef-d'oeuvre de l'édition 2002 où Friedemann Layer était déjà au pupitre, fait partie de la série consacrée aux oeuvres "redécouvertes", si l'on peut dire, par René Koering à travers le Festival de Radio France-Montpellier dont on saluera au passage la programmation courageuse et originale.
Shani Diluka releases a great project dedicated to Marcel Proust and composers he loved, to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2021 and the 100-year anniversary of his death in 2022. It features Reynaldo Hahn's rarely played Piano Concerto and works by Fauré, Gluck, Massenet, R. Strauss, and Debussy. The album is recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Hervé Niquet. The Proust album features Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Natalie Dessay (soprano), and Guillaume Gallienne (narrator, from the Comédie Francaise).
It’s now time for a release with the famous German organist Helmut Walcha. This is the first of initially 4 releases with Walcha playing J. S. Bach. He recorded the complete works by J. S. Bach twice, from 1947-1950 in mono on the Schnitger organ in Cappel and in St. Jakobi in Lübeck and 1956-1971 on the famous organ in Alkmaar. This release is from the Alkmaar serie and is therefore in stereo. A quite interesting thing is to compare it with the IHORC14 release, where Fernando Germani plays the exact same organ about two years later…
Compositeur, pédagogue et joueur de basse de viole à la cour, Marin Marais haussa le jeu de la viole soliste au plus haut niveau de raffinement. Il composa plus de cinq cents pièces, toutes annotées avec précision, sur lesquelles se mesurèrent tous les joueurs de viole de l’époque. Il publia cinq livres pour cet instrument dont certains en duo ou trio.
Certainly the most enigmatic Stormy Six CD release, this album consist of two different albums recorded in 1976, although one content's worth, called Pinocchio Bazaar (from track 16 until 25) did not see a release until the Fonitcentra CD reissue in the mid-90's, which uses the Cliché artwork and just adds the extra tracks and Pinocchio Bazaar name. An enjoyable album that can also be used as starting point for people who wants to approach the genre.
In this fourth volume of the series Pa saber de flamenco offer an overview of the capacity to take sophisticated flamenco, flirting with other musical forms. Invite you to take a journey that is a return to the root, a trip to the seed. All the voices and guitars of the great classics of our time, Camarón Paco de Lucia, through Sanlúcar and Carmen Linares. Of course we also offer classic flamenco tradition in the voices of the great historical masters like Antonio Mairena, Porrina of Badajoz, Manolo Caracol or El Chato de la Isla, among others. Pa Saber de Flamenco 4 is not a disc but a gem. A naked heart, the heart of flamenco. An ancient art that is more alive than ever. And in this mechanical world in which we live, this virtue of stripping the heart is something unusual.