Pier Damiano Peretti (1974), dopo il diploma d'organo presso il Conservatorio di Vicenza (M°Antonio Cozza), si trasferisce a Vienna, dove dal 1996 studia presso la Musikuniversität nelle classi di Herbert Tachezi e Michael Radulescu per l'organo e di Wolfgang Suppan per la composizione.


Nel Giugno 2002 consegue il diploma in "Orgelkonzertfach" con menzione speciale.

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Formed in 1985 by Tomas Örnberg as ‘The Swedish Jazz Kings’ it began as a studio band to recreate and record the music of Clarence Williams for American record producer Bob Erdos, who suggested the name ‘Swedish Jazz Kings’.

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Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense, a full time orchestra on original period instruments, was founded by Stefan Sutkowski in 1957. It was the first early music vocal-instrumental ensemble in Poland. From the beginning, its members set themselves the goal of popularising newly discovered relics of Polish music. These musicians became founder members of Warsaw Chamber Opera, which was founded in 1961 by Stefan Sutkowski, who has served as its Managing and Artistic Director ever since. At present, the Warsaw Chamber Opera company consists of 2 directors, 2 designers, 7 conductors, over 75 soloists, and 3 full-time orchestras (period-instruments ensemble (orchestra) Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense and two small-size symphony orchestras - the Warsaw Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of Warsaw Chamber Opera ).
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Allison Moorer was born into a musical family and raised in the small southern Alabama town of Frankville; when Moorer's father shot her mother and then turned the gun on himself, older sister Shelby Lynne -- soon to become a country singer herself -- took charge of raising Allison. After attending the University of South Alabama, Moorer moved to Nashville, hoping to get her start as a studio backing vocalist. She struck up a songwriting partnership with musician and future husband Butch Primm, and soon signed a publishing deal.

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Paul McCreesh
"…McCreesh's great and defining gift is a startling ability to marry erudition and imagination to revelatory effect ….even greater things can be expected…"

Founder and Artistic Director of the Gabrieli Consort and Players, has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field and is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and in the opera house.


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The Festetics Quartet from Budapest---Istvan Kertesz, first violin; Erika Petoefi, second violin; Peter Ligeti, viola; and Rezsoe Pertorini, cello---combines the technique of original instruments with the legendary tradition of Hungarian string quartets. The Quartet is named after the Festetics family, founders of the famous Helikon music library. Its repertoire includes the string quartets by Haydn and Mozart and the early works by Beethoven and Schubert.

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W. A. Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A-major, K.V. 581
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B-minor, Opus 115.
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, of course, is an eminently well known piece, but what is less well known, the "original version" was expressly written, not for an ordinary clarinet but for the Basset clarinet. On this recording we can hear one of the first versions in the world! It is interesting to note that these two compositions (also referring to the Clarinet concerto) are the only ones ever written for the basset clarinet.

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