Gagliano/ Reali/ Borgioni - La Flora (1628)The birth of opera began around 1600 in Florence, where this new genre was used to accompany important political events. The court conductor Marco da Gagliano, who had also become acquainted with Monteverdi's new style during his time in Mantua, created a whole series of operas for the Medici house, but only two have survived. His opera "La Flora", to a libretto by the Florentine court poet Andrea Salvadori, was written for the wedding celebrations of

Michael Peterson - Stength of the Nation

each song wrapped around the dazzling delivery of Starks' multi-octave voice

both written in the 1920s when Atterberg was already a very experienced musician known throughout Europe and active at home and abroad

It reveals the fascinating struggles

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This classic has literally never sounded or looked better

and the sparse arrangements pick apart complicated truths while feeling both timeless and transcendent

the fourth single

Veronique Gens / Nora Gubisch / Charles Castronovo - Edouard Lalo & Arthur Coquard: La Jacquerie

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the groups entry for the 1979 Song for Europe competition 'Harry My Honolulu Lover'

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