Tim Dickinson wrote: >This is the only music that I've heard from this composer, but this >piece was a very pleasant surprise - I did not expect music this >good from someone so obscure. Hasse did write very good music, and Tim might be glad to know that there's much more of it recorded. I don't keep my collection in any order, so I can't give a detailed discography. I know that the SCHWANN Opus is missing many of Hasse's recordings. There's the Opera "Cleofide" on a 4-disc Capriccio set(price isn't bad); this opera has some of the most beautiful arias in the baroque era. Emma Kirby and William Christie are the big names in the production. Capriccio also released a 2-disc set of another Hasse opera named Piramo e Tisbe. Opus 111 released a disc of Hasse motets. I have 2 or 3 Hasse sacred works on CPO. I'd start with Cleofide - it's Hasse at his best, and at his best, he's the equal of Telemann and just a notch or two below Bach and Handel. Don Satz [log in to unmask]