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New CD release: "Conversations - Gaspard Le Roux: Suites for two harpsichords"
Harmonia mundi's "Les Arts Florissants" collection has a new title, with this duo recording by William Christie and Justin Taylor, devoted to their instrument of choice: the harpsichord...
An outlier in the French harpsichord world, Gaspard Le Roux composed music of unique inventiveness and richness at the end of the reign of Louis XIV. Juxtaposing his pieces with others by Lully, Marais and François Couperin, William Christie and Justin Taylor have found the ideal alchemy to do full justice to the myriad colours of these Suites, as virtuosic as they are rich in new emotions.
New re-issue: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas & The Fairy Queen CD box set
Two reissues have been released as a boxed set in the ‘Les Arts Florissants’ collection by harmonia mundi. This is an opportunity to listen again to two recordings dating from the late 1980s of the nascent English opera with two master[...]
