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As authentic as green Guinness, but good to hear

As authentic as green Guinness, but good to hear

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

… My pick of the week may appear esoteric. It comes from Ludwigshafen in western Germany and is performed by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz with its British chief conductor Michael Francis.

The composer is an Irishwoman who lived in Paris in the second half of the 19th century and is all but forgotten in both of her patrimonies….

Read on here.

And here.

En francais ici.

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