Jacquet De La Guerre/ Malgoire/ Dominos - Sonates Pour Violon'Dinner being over, His Majesty spoke to Mlle de la Guerre in a most gracious manner; after having praised her sonatas extensively, he said to her that they could not be compared to any other such works. Mlle de la Guerre could not have received higher praise, for these words revealed that the King had not only found her music to be most fine, but also to be original a quality that today is extremely rare' (Le Mercure galant, 1707). This new release

chasing dreams

delightful pieces - perhaps not in the modernist fashion of the day but which will prove enduring despite the composer calling them 'only trifles'

My Boy Willie

Mylon would later record this song with his band

The fashionable status of this new craze attracted writers

Susan Harrison

many of which would meet with the disapproval of modern-day exponents

beginning to playing out at house parties

composed in 1872 after the Paris Commune

"What is really interesting about Geoffrey's music is that it looks orthodox on the page initially

Per la flor del lliri blau

where it managed a further 215 performances