Nicola Porpora, if he is known at all, is recognized as Franz Josef Haydn's only music teacher of consequence and as the benevolent figure who rescued Haydn from a life of destitution and homelessness on the streets of Vienna. Still others may know of Porpora as a composer who went up against Handel's popularity in London in the 1730s, only to ...
This Brilliant Classics release represents an odd combination of elements -- a two-disc set of music devoted to Italian composer Giovanni Bononcini of which one disc consists of a set of divertimenti published at London in 1722 and the second to sixth secular cantatas performed by a completely different group. Sharp listeners deep into Bononcini ...
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