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MY FINEST MOMENT

Monteverdi Orfeo

Various soloists; Concerto Italiano/ Rinaldo Alessandrini

Naïve OP30439 (2007)

We all have composers to whom we secretly pay eternal gratitude, for the meaning they have had in our lives and for what they have been able to teach us.

I actually don’t know whom to thank more, Monteverdi or Bach. But if Bach is the composer we all inevitably have to approach to

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