Donizetti/ Hauk/ Gubba-Chkheidze - Vesper PsalmsGaetano Donizetti is renowned as a leading composer of the Italian romantic bel canto opera style during the first half of the 19th century. But in his earlier years and as a student of Simon Mayr his dramatic genius came to the fore in his settings of psalm texts for Vespers, a form then still popular in Italy both in secular and liturgical contexts. Donizetti's Vesper Psalms are characterized by beautifully shaped operatic melodies and colorful

Album was released by the DUX publishing house thanks to the support of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Musical trace" program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance

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choosing to write together in the studio in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton

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where he was a graduate assistant and studied with Dr

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This 1990 album was Tom Zé's first release on Luaka Bop after being discovered by David Byrne and was the first introduction of Zé's music to a wider U

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as well as two Christmas classics

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