Handel/ Loffler/ Friederike - My Favourite Instrument Cons Sons & Arias withThroughout his life, the oboe played a key role in the music of Georg Friedrich Handel. For no other instrument did he compose such passionate, dramatic and virtuosic music. On this disc, the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle presents a selection of Handel's most beautiful works featuring the oboe. Xenia Lffler, member of the Akademe fr Alte Musik Berlin, is the soloist. Vocal parts in the arias with oboe are sung by the young coloratura soprano Marie Friederike

which morphed over the years from Best Sellers in Stores Top 10 into the Top 100 and the Hot 100

These rare recordings predate his Bop credentials by a few months prior to his jam sessions with Charlie Parker and other pioneers

and won a talent competition which led to a job as a DJ where his comedy gradually took over the show

plus the tracks from his two albums during this era not otherwise released as singles

"Spanish Lace" and others

was already described as the 'Liberator of Germania' by Tacitus

and in the company of the cream of young French singers (Judith Van Wanroij

He wrote classic songs like "That's All Right Mama"

Josef Bohuslav Foerster (Liebeslieder op

"Last Date"

"Lover Come Back To Me"

it excludes some records were still in the chart at the start of the year