Michael Oman & Austrian Baroque Company – La Suave Melodia (2003/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:51 minutes | 621 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FIN
Founded in 2003 by Austrian recorder player Michael Oman, the Austrian Baroque Company is one of the country’s leading early music ensembles. In its founding year, the ensemble recorded instrumental music from the 16th to 18th centuries from the Mediterranean region for the ORF label. On the occasion of the ensemble’s 20th anniversary, the highly acclaimed recording will be re-released on FRA BERNARDO.
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Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – London Calling (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new release gives us a small impression of what was played for entertainment in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in the houses of London’s high society. The variety of the programme ranges from typical British melancholy to ostinato melodies by Nicola Matteis, an Italian violinist who, like Handel, who is also represented here, enriched the musical life on the Thames as a musical guest worker and Englishman of choice, to the exuberance of the ‘Ayres’. The famous baroque violinist Amandine Beyer and the recorder player Michael Oman are supported by the ABC – Austrian Baroque Company.
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