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CD Review - Il Pastor Fido

Jean-Pierre van Hees, Luc Ponet, Ronan Kernoa - Il pastor Fido, sonates pour la musette et la basse continue. Etcetera, KTC 1779.

When I first became acquainted with this music, I was introduced to it as a series of recorder sonatas by Vivaldi. But it wasn't written for recorder; it was written for musette. (In true baroque style, recorder players had filched it; and in the notes to the CD, Jean- Pierre delivers a decided rebuke to the pilferers. I plead guilty as charged!)

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