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Lumieres: Music of the Enlightenment  | Harmonia Mundi HMX290860130

Lumieres: Music of the Enlightenment

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMX290860130

Barcode: 3149020860144

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 30

Release Date: 3rd October 2011

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Contents

Artists

Conductors

Rene Jacobs
William Christie
Daniel Reuss

Artists

Conductors

Rene Jacobs
William Christie
Daniel Reuss

About

The Unprecedented Expansion of Music in the Age of Enlightenment.

The 18th century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language.

In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the 18th century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Contents:
30 CDs to discover the music of the 18th Century
- French harpsichord music
- The Twilight of the Baroque Oratorio
- The History of the Concerto
- From Sinfonia to Symphony
- Opera : tragédie lyrique, Gluck’s Reform & the Mozartian Opera
- ‘A Tre’: From the trio sonata to the Piano trio
- The Classical Sonata
- The birth of the String quartet…

Complete & Uncut Operas
- Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro / René Jacobs
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / René Jacobs
- Rameau: Castor & Pollux / William Christie

Oratorio
- Handel: Solomon / Daniel Reuss

Over 33 hours of music, 80 cornerstones of classical music in deluxe packaging, at a special, low price.

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