Finally a classic French composer, for better

France has few classical composers as defined in European musicology, his "baroque" eventually turned rococo and it happened to romanticism without having the well known German flowering of the "Vienna School" and its epigones . Which, if I may use this slight annoyance, all international editors keep harping since the invention of the disk: the Germans because they at least cultivate their heritage, and there is what the Anglo-Saxons because they do not really have much to put in their mouths if not, apart from the Italians and their inexhaustible creativity.

Yet Mehul and Gossec here, kept up flag can be rightly considered the jewels of the "classic" French music, Rameau between the eighteenth and nineteenth Berlioz. Gossec's Requiem and Symphony seventeen parts are among his finest works.

The only regrettable thing is to consider them almost as curiosities or rarities, when they should be part of the French current directory. This double album (for the price of one, a publisher who does not hesitate to publish music ... less hackneyed) is an opportunity to get out of the ghetto where we have caught up. If you really do not "bite" not up to you to buy the 494th version of the Brahms symphonies and continue to ignore your heritage, it's not that that will encourage this type of issue.