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http://www.qobuz.com/images/jaquettes/0822/0822231101024_600.jpg This is one of the most important offerings in the LSO LIVE label. The challenge of conducting Les Troyens rejuvenated Sir Colin Davis, his conducting is as exciting and vigorous as in his 1969 Philips recording. The cast is sound and...

Happy St. Patrick´s Day to all!!!!

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0709861305315.jpg This is Rinaldo Alessandrini´s latest release, and it´s a beauty. It has string music from the Italian "Seicento", namely, Falconiero, Cavalli, Legrenzi, Merula, Bononcini and Dall´Abaco. Mauro Lopes who has been playing first violin ...

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0709861305315.jpg This is Rinaldo Alessandrini´s latest release, and it´s a beauty. It has string music from the Italian "Seicento", namely, Falconiero, Cavalli, Legrenzi, Merula, Bononcini and Dall´Abaco. Mauro Lopes who has been playing first violin ...

I haven't yet heard Bernius' reading of the Missa Omnium Sanctorum, Jose. Is it still in print? By the way, I forgot to mention the superb performance of the Lamentations on Hyperion as well in my earlier post. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515vCFNYA7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg You also mentioned H...

Seán wrote: <I was looking at the Tafelmusik's recording and wondering if I should get it, I do like them but they are not the Freiburg.> The Bernius recording is about 20 years old, but it was and still is a very beautiful recording. I think you should go for it, since it´s unlikely that another r...

Seán wrote: <I was looking at the Tafelmusik's recording and wondering if I should get it, I do like them but they are not the Freiburg.> The Bernius recording is about 20 years old, but it was and still is a very beautiful recording. I think you should go for it, since it´s unlikely that another re...

I enjoyed a lovely listening session with my brother yesterday and to my great surprise and delight he was enthralled by Zelenka's saced music, he was particularly impressed with the Collegium Vocale Ghent: Jan Dismas Zelenka Missa dei filii Collegium Vocale Ghent Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conduct...

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0794881911523.jpg Mozart composed Idomeneo for the Mannheim Orchestra that had just moved to the Munich Court. That orchestra was considered by many the finest in the XVIII Century, so it´s only fitting that René Jacobs uses the fabulous Freiburger Barockorchest...

http://multimedia.fnac.es/multimedia/ES/images_produits/ES/ZoomPE/9/2/1/0608917238129.jpg?201111301912 If Fux hadn´t composed anything but these partitas he would already be considered one of the great composers of the early XVIII Century. Gunar Letzbor and Ilia Korol, the 2 principal violinists of...