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Naxos

Manon Lescaut

This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini’s first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon

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Fischer 1 Naxos C

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer may not have been a great composer, but he was an important one, not least because his Ariadne musica–20 preludes and

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Fischer 2 Naxos C

Luc Beauséjour’s appealing traversal of Johann Casper Ferdinand Fischer’s Musical Parnassus concludes with the final three of its nine suites, each dedicated to one of

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