Authentic and authoritative, these 1985 recordings of Mozart and Beethoven's quintets for piano and winds have almost everything going for them. Performing on a pianoforte modeled on a 1790 Viennese instrument, Jos van Immerseel is an adroit player, while the quartet drawn from the period instrument wind band Octophoros -- Paul Dombrecht on oboe, ...
Back in the early days of digital recording, Octophoros -- the remarkable Flemish wind band with the strikingly original name -- made a handful of recordings for the Accent label. A couple of them -- a wind arrangement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and a disc of "Janissary" (pseudo-Turkish) music by Rossetti, Spohr, and Beethoven -- were bright, ...
Throughout the Renaissance, and even into the Enlightenment, there were a number of skirmishes and a few instances of out and out war between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. The defeat of Ottoman forces in 1683 set the stage for the slow decline of the Empire, although it did not officially dissolve until 1923. Among the most successful infantry ...
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