Florilegium Series: The Baroque Era / L'oiseau Ly

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Label: L'OISEAU-LYRE
Catalog: 4786753
Format: CD

Various Artists

AN ORIGINAL JACKETS 50 CD SET
Kicking off Decca’s ambitious celebration of its pioneering Early Music and Period Performance Label, L’Oiseau-Lyre. A 50 CD Original Jackets Collection celebrating the greatest Baroque recordings from Decca’s pioneering early music label L’Oiseau-Lyre. This is the first of three 50-CD cubes. Key Baroque works featured include best-selling albums such as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Not only does the new Baroque collection showcase some of L’Oiseau-Lyre’s early triumphs. It also includes more recent releases, such as Il pianto di Maria with Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini in 2009. PACKAGING: Sleeves presented in original jackets 50CD Cube ‘Lid-off’ box. Original Florilegium border design. 196-page booklet including two extensive 3000-word essays – ‘The repertoire’ by Lindsay Kemp, and ‘The L’Oiseau-Lyre story’ by Raymond McGill.