Tomasi/ Aldenhoff/ Bavarian State Opera Orch - Don Juan de ManaraThe superb heldentenor Bernd Aldenhoff (1908 59) is the focus of this release of the premiere performance in 1956 in Munich of the opera Don Juan de Manara by Henri Tomasi (1901 71), the only currently active and available complete recording of this work in the catalog, and certainly the most important. Sung in German, what it lacks in language authenticity it makes up for in idiomatic diction, as the fine, largely German cast, led by Andre Cluytens,

It's not all pretty though

including long-suppressed hymns recorded here for the first time

Pearlfishers - Across The Milky Way

As we watch

and Dylan Phillips is a continued source of wonder

Scratchmaster Chuck T and many others

and modern-Baroque virtuosos such as Giovanni Guglielmo and Giuseppe Carmignola have recorded his ornately wrought concertos

the play traces the diaspora of Njinga's people to Brazil and the United States

Volker Biesenbender (violin) and Vladimir Toncha (cello)

Gregg Allman

Active during the beginning of the 19th century

made particularly famous for it's use of Italian-Swiss folk melodies