Tomáš Král

Tomáš Král, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Jarosław Thiel – Kings in the North (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:11 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Northern Europe was a fertile ground for lyrical music: it has borrowed many memorable historical figures but is also indebted to it for many masterpieces by Baroque composers. Handel and Bach come to mind, of course, but we would be forgetting the Heinichen, Schürmann, Keiser and Telemann, whose brilliant opera music is so rarely performed. Many of them have portrayed monarchs, terrible or majestic, in their operatic works – roles that, unlike their southern colleagues, the composers of the Septentrion do not hesitate to entrust to lower voices.

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