Porpora/ Hasse/ Vocal Concert Dresden/ Kopp - Le Grazie VenezianePorpora Hasse Vocal Concert Dresden Kopp Le Grazie Veneziane

battaglie e canzoni' and 17th-century Italian organ music by Galuppi and Pasquini

Matthew Passion

One of Bergman's favourite Swedish pianists was Roland Pöntinen

in this he was a worthy successor of Felix Mendelssohn

the German pianist cannot be praised too highly for his inventiveness and initiative in exploring unfamiliar terrain

and the album comprised 12 songs that were written and previously recorded by other artists

from which the renowned baroque oboist Xenia Löffler has selected four impressive examples by Franz Xaver Kerzelli

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and banned from screens by frightened civic groups and distributors across America

Håkan Hardenberger - who like so many other leading trumpet players studied in Paris - presents some of the fruits of this development: five important French works composed between 1944 and 1977

The two artists have been collaborating for years on rediscovering the Italian vocal repertory of the seventeenth century

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