CD Spotlight August 2016: Gossec & Dittersdorf and La Prise de la Bastille (1789)

The Symphony La Prise de la Bastille is attributed here to Ditters von Dittersdorf. In reality the authorship of this Symphony is dubious and more probably the real composer of this work was the Belgian composer Othon-Joseph Vandenbroeck! Capriccio Records

CD Spotlight July 2016: Music from the French Revolution (July 1789)

Discover the French Revolutionary origin of the theme of the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven from his friend Lefevre’s French Revolutionary work Hymne à l’Agriculture!  www.nimbusrecords.com