This historically informed performance is recorded by Ensemble Amarilli, and is an exploration into the recreational music of the French nobility in Baroque and Rococo times. Corresponding to customary chamber music, the ensemble uses recorders, flutes, voices, viola da gamba, and harpsichord in various structures. The majority of these works were written by composers who lived under Louis XIV (the Sun King), and Louis XV.

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Founded in 2008 by conductor Gerd Schaller, the Philharmonie Festiva’s core cast are the musicians of the Munich Bach Soloists, the ensemble originally founded by Karl Richter. Enthusiastic receptions from audiences and critics at home and abroad have already greeted this new ensemble. The orchestra’s world premiere recording of the romantic opera Merlin by Carl Goldmark in 2010 garnered the prestigious ECHO Klassik Music Prize in the category of Best Opera Recording of the Year (19th c.). This release finds Mr. Schaller leading his orchestra in Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5.

Halina Czerny-Stefánska, who was born in Kraków in 1922 and died there in 2001, achieved international fame as an interpreter of Chopin. On the 150th anniversary of the Polish composer's birth, the state-owned record company Polskie Nagrania produced a comprehensive collection of his works, featuring a number of her exemplary recordings, which form a major part of this set. One incident makes particularly clear what high esteem Chopin interpreter Czerny-Stefánska had achieved in the world of music: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 was released in the West as an LP featuring the brilliant, short-lived pianist Dinu Lipatti. Fifteen years passed before it transpired that the artist on this recording was not Lipatti, but Czerny-Stefánska, with the conductor Václav Smetácek. The mistake was admitted and corrected.

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