Academy of ancient
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Vinilo bruch, joshua bell, academy of stmartin-in-the-fields - scottish fantasia / violin concerto (1cds)
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This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of italya beautifully illustrated history of the renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patronsinspired by the humanists, the princes of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, villas and churches inspired by the architecture of ancient rome, and offering patronage to artists and writers' michael prodger, the times 'full of treasures to be uncoveredmany of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held society together but whose tensions sometimes threatened to tear it apart; thus were their lives dominated as much by the waging of war as the nurture of artistic talentin a narrative that is as rigorous and closely researched as it is accessible and informative, mary hollingsworth sets the princes' aesthetic achievements in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of a tumultuous period of history'exceptionally sumptuous' bbc history revealed from the late middle ages, the independent italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulersa chance to visit a glittering, at times rather gory, world that is different and yet dreamily familiar to our own
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Vinilo sylvie simmons - sylvia mcnair, thomas allen, academy of st martin in the fields, sir neville marriner - requiem (1cds)
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Vinilo the dream academy - remembrance (a collection of poems & music dedicated to the soldiers of world war one) (1cds)
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