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Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano); Florilegium Channel Classics CCSSA32311 (2012)

Having done a ‘best of Baroque’ album with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Harry Christophers, I was looking to do complete pieces of Baroque music. This wasn’t my first project with Florilegium – we’d done some performances of other Baroque music, so by then we were very much friends and collaborators. Working with them is

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