Catherine Michel - Boïeldieu, Villa Lobos, Rodrigo: Harp Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:12 | 363 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Pentatone | Catalog: PTC5186135
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:12 | 363 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Pentatone | Catalog: PTC5186135
These are wonderful pieces, with only perhaps the Rodrigo at all well-known today, and then only because of his famous guitar concertos. Boieldieu was a very good composer, and his harp concerto is often breathtakingly beautiful; if the theme of the finale isn't the last word in elegant pathos then nothing is. The Villa-Lobos sounds just like–Villa-Lobos: rich, exotic, heavily scored, and voluptuous. It's a big work in four movements. The lively and lovely Rodrigo needs no introduction, save to note that it's one of his very best works in any medium.