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Romanticism from the Low Countries

Charles Voogd | Underwaterland | 07/19/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"So, now you can buy more CD's of Belgian composers than ever before! Try this one if you like unpretentious, romantic music. Benoit must have learnt a lot of Berlioz; Mortelmans has a great touch of his own and De Vocht is a romantic soul, lost in the last century. By the way: Volume 2 is excellent too and in 1991 Marco Polo issued a very fine Volume Zero with some other shorter scores."

The Ink of Creation

Kris De Ruysscher | Brussels, Belgium | 08/26/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Once again a bargain: for absolutely nothing you get the most well wrought Flemish music from the Romantic era. Flemish music is in essence pastoral, highly descriptive, lyrical, with all the bells and whistles it implies. The orchestration is always well written, the sound and invention are majestuous and there's often a strong but hidden undercurrent of mysticism.

Beautiful music at a very attractive price. To try out."