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It’s amazing that this music remains so little known; it’s simply wonderful. None of Boccherini’s symphonies require trumpets and drums, most feature some sort of
This program is simply delicious. Who knew that Hummel wrote a series of variations on the tune “O du lieber Augustin,” complete with an episode
Georg Vogler was one of the 18th (and early 19th) century’s great “characters”. He began his career at Mannheim where, if Mozart is to be
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) had talent. The music on this disc proves that this particular female British composer was not content to merely match the
Unless you’re familiar with the trio of florid arias by Josef Myslivecek in Magdalena Kozena’s recent CD of 18th-century opera selections, his name likely will
How idiotic can a CD package get? It says “mozart the great symphonies”, as if e.e. cummings suddenly had become a booklet designer. Then it
German-born English composer William Herschel (1738-1822) achieved fame as an astronomer, the discoverer of the planet Uranus; but his formal training was musical, and in
The highlight of this sunny, consistently delightful disc comes in the form of 26 Variations on “La folia di Spagna”, based on one of the
Throughout the history of music, there are fascinating cases of family involvement in composition, the prime examples being the Bach and Strauss dynasties. In England,
I was only a talented man who can be happy if he conquers the present; only a genius lives beyond the grave, wrote Adalbert Gyrowetz
