Valls: Missa Scala Aretina; Biber: Requiem by Mieke van der Sluis (CD, Nov-2002, DHM Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

This is baroque music at its best. Everyone knows that I am a Baroque collectors and find more and more music from this period, whose emergence and composers are for me unknown. It's always fun to get letters and also thick mail in your mailbox, and I long avrje day after such, it takes a lot of money early, there are people who are spending money on less useful things as well, as the bar for example. The music on this album reflects a time of luxury and frivolity you can really see all the royal court costumes when they boast of their riches, and among these riches fnns also the music, for all the princes wanted to have got working music chapel, then this was a power of their lives and their prince's court. I heartily recommend these CDs.