Music of the Enlightenment - Limited Edition 30 CD set

[Seán]

This set will be available on Amazon from the 3rd October and may be purchased for £38.94. It will probably be cheaper when Amazon resellers start selling it.

It boasts the following performers:

Paul Lewis (Artist), Academy of Ancient Music (Artist), Tokyo String Quartet (Artist), Freiburger Barockorchester (Artist), bernarda Fink (Artist), et al.

Here is the Amazon blub:

The unprecedented expansion of music in the age of enlightenmentThe 18th century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we `consume' it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Is anybody interested in and/or do you have any opinions on this set?

[fergus]

It is difficult to say whether one would be interested or not in that set due to the absence of a contents list; however the list of artists mentioned above are first rate and if that sets the standard then it may very well be of interest.
Thanks for posting that one Seán.