JC Bach: Arias: Jaroussky/Le Cercle de L'Harmonie/Rhorer | CD review

(Virgin Classics)Mention the name Bach in the 18th century and people would probably have assumed you were referring not to Johann Sebastian but his youngest son Johann Christian, who trained in Italy before moving to London, where he acquired a reputation as the greatest composer of Italian opera since Handel. The baroque revival has been slow to take up his work, though of late he has found a champion in countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, who recently twinned his music with Handel's at a Barbica...

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