C.P.E. Bach / Balestracci/ Corsi - Virtuosity & Grace - Sonatas for viola da gambaThis album is a story of family and friendship. Positioned between homage to a father figure and modernity, the viola da gamba sonatas of Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach are a revealing element in the history of the Bach family and it's ties of friendship with two families of virtuoso instrumentalists, the Abels and the Hesses, who had already inspired the work of Johann Sebastian. Carl Philipp Emanuel was active in Berlin, encouraged

This great value 98-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart or in the Top 7 of the Juke Box or Disc Jockey charts during the year

This seminal album from the Mark Turner Quintet was recorded on Dec

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He does not speak

and of course La Gioconda

Regarding this performance of the 7th Symphony

She taught for 44 years at the Royal College of Music and was a major Decca artist for two decades

The Dukas track was the first conservatory test-piece for horn to specifically exploit the newly "legitimized" valve instrument

Even where everyone seemed to think that newly written song A would be wonderful if recorded by singer B

Alongside rave reviews for his Concertos for Recorder Virtuoso

" - Byron Coley

Presented are both very famous composers and lesser known ones