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CURRENT NEWS 22-02-2008
5 Star Pack No 50 - FEBRUARY 2008 : 6 CDS from only 90 Euros
01/02/2008
Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing 5-star recordings selected by our editor and reviewed in this issue.

Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 6 new 5 Star releases from only 90 Euros.

The Cuenca Religious Music Week
14/02/2008
14 to 23 March 2008.
This year’s artist in residence at the Cuenca Religious Music Week is the pianist Peter Donohoe. Donohoe studied under Derek Wyndham and later with Yvonne Loriod and Olivier Messiaen, and it is to the latter that this year’s lectures will be devoted.

5 Star : Six Concertos
12/02/2008
This recording competes with many fine versions, including Pinnock’s own celebrated 1982 version (see the discography for Graham Lock’s interview with Pinnock, Goldberg 43). Pinnock writes that in 1982 'I stood in awe of Bach’s discipline and order', whereas 'today I relish his sense of daring and musical subversion'.

Festival Harmoniques
19/02/2008
4 to 6 April 2008.
The piano saw considerable development in the early 19th century, due in large part to the rise of the bourgeoisie. Numerous changes in instrument building took place during this period, particularly as concerned fortepianos.

5 Star : La Noria de los Modos
15/02/2008
Even though we may now very little about the Andalusi musical repertoire, which sounds at the very least exotic to our ears 500 years after it died out in Al-Andalus, the music itself and quality musicians who perform it are easy to recognize.

Musicora
20/02/2008
4 to 6 April 2008.
Musicora, the leading showcase for classical music in France, will once again be held in the heart of Paris at the Carrousel du Louvre. During the three days scheduled for the event, instrument makers, publishers, federations and associations, professional musicians, and the media will gather under one roof to provide the largest gathering of the classical music market in France.

Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival
22/02/2008
13 to 19 April 2008.
Founded by Bach scholar Albert Riemenschneider, for long the Director of Baldwin-Wallace College’s conservatoire, in 1932, the festival that bears name of the Ohio college is the second oldest Bach festival in the USA.

5 Star Pack No 49 - DECEMBER 2007 : 10 CDS from only 110 Euros
01/12/2007
Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing 5-star recordings selected by our editor and reviewed in this issue.

Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 10 new 5 Star releases (6 + box set) from only 110 Euros.


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