Simone Stella - Complete Harpsichord MusicGiovanni Picchi (1572 1643) flourished in Venice, notably as the organist at the Scuola di San Rocco. He became renowned as a composer of both secular and sacred music, attested by his presence in the Nobilt di dame by Fabrizio Caroso, the most important collection of dance music of the time. A collection of his canzone was published in 1625 and his fame spread to England, where a Toccata for harpsichord was transcribed within the Fitzwilliam Virginal

CALL THE MIDWIFE offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now

Dynamic trio performances are accompanied by his son

Atakora Manu passed away in 2015 but left an abundance of beautiful music

Father Brown (Mark Williams) cycles back on screen to solve more mysteries in the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford in this charming series based on the short stories by G K Chesterton

Additional top-class performers from the Country and Western stable include

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Model from the year 1779 built by the Parisian harp builders Renault & Chatelain and restored - exactly 240 years later

With Jolie Poupée Bekono finally made an impact outside Cameroon as the record captured listeners in some Central African countries like Equatorial Guinea

After their successful world tour and first Top 10 album on the Billboard 200

One year after winning the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music for the fifth album in it's series Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks

making few concessions to the commercial honky-tonk and New Nashville developments during the 1950s

and it is two of his lesser-known creations for the instrument - the E minor Partita and the Trio Sonata in G minor - which form the remainder of this highly engaging disc