Le Concert Spirituel - Don Quichotte Chez la DuchesseIn 1743, two years before Rameau's Plate, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people from Japan, making for plenty of offbeat and audacious dances and choruses. Musical beauty rubs shoulders with satirical and irreverent comedy. A choice work for Herv Niquet, who leads his Concert Spirituel

Following on from their highly acclaimed first album featuring three quartets by Haydn

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had not yet allowed him fully to emancipate his compositional talent: his relations with King Frederick II were stormy

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the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Marr was almost too perfect to exist for any length of time

German-American composer Otto Luening was an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music

Muller organized the group and they recorded for Salsoul from the late '70s until 1984

while BWV 1053 is a reworking of three cantata movements which in turn probably hailed from a lost organ concerto

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