Messerschmidt Merseburger Hofmusik Schonheit - Cello & Organ ConcertosSince only a very few compositions from Johann Wilhelm Hertel's complete oeuvre were printed during his lifetime, the dissemination of his music was very limited and restricted. The rediscovery of this master's two cello concertos in the early 1990s already represented a great enrichment of the repertoire of violoncello concertos from the age of Empfindsamkeit and the style galant around 1750. Bettina Messerschmidt became acquainted with Hertel's

on Riverside

Previous Brilliant Classics albums by this Dutch string orchestra

Robert Farnon

On this record the works are impressively interpreted by Ensemble Consolazione

THE RAVAGER and THE BUSHWHACKER represent the last hurrah for rough and tumble 60s style sexploitation before hardcore sex films completely took over the market

Morris uses cinema to build a case forensically while effortlessly entertaining his viewers

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and a triumph of the human spirit

Music has always played an important part in Florent's family: Singing polyphonic music and having a lute-making father-who built most of his instruments-prob-ably explains why he chose to devote himself to the lute family

How did Brubeck develop such chemistry with alto-saxophonist Paul Desmond

and occasionally there are parts that are reminiscent of power metal