Orquestra barroca Casa da Música

Andreas Staier, Orquestra barroca Casa da Música – À Portuguesa (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:53 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

For a long, long time, the Iberian Peninsula remained separate from the mainstream currents of European music, and most of the musicians and composers active in Spain and Portugal in the 18th century came from Italy or other countries. The new Spanish royal family – The House of Bourbon, established by Louis XIV of France who allowed his grandson Philip V to take to the throne – had adopted Versailles’ splendour. However, they still had to reckon with the Grandees of Spain with their aristocratic tradition, privileges, morgue, precedence, freezing austerity and extreme religious faith… And so, once the succession war was over, the arts found that they had been left somewhat neglected. It was therefore down to Italy and England to lead the musical dance in Spain for a while. Scarlatti and Boccherini, of course, are the most representative names of this influence, so it is normal that this album, “Á Portuguesa” (extended to Spain, it is true), gives prominence to these two composers.
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