V.A. - Music of the Enlightenment, Lumieres: La Musique Du XVIII Siecle [30CD Box Set] (2011)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 33:49:44 | 4,47 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 33:49:44 | 4,47 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi
The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since Antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age– every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the Revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follow in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century.