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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Saturday 01 August 2015, 20:58

Title: Félicien David Herculanum
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 01 August 2015, 20:58
Forthcoming from Editiones Singulares:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/felicien-cesar-david-herculanum/hnum/8272949 (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/felicien-cesar-david-herculanum/hnum/8272949)
Brief YouTube intro here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhXtl0wGX4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhXtl0wGX4)
More here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_-rnFM-xU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_-rnFM-xU)
Title: Re: Félicien David Herculanum
Post by: Mark Thomas on Saturday 01 August 2015, 22:24
This  is very good news, for those of us who enjoy David's faintly perfumed idiom.
Title: Re: Félicien David Herculanum
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 02 August 2015, 09:33
I'll be waiting to hear this before I venture forth credit card in hand...
Title: Re: Félicien David Herculanum
Post by: Mark Thomas on Sunday 02 August 2015, 09:54
The first YouTube excerpt sounds very much like early Gounod, which is not a bad thing...