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Fri 12 Dec 2006Classical CD previewsJANUARY:Il divino Boemo Concerto Köln/Werner Ehrhardt Archiv Produktion 477 6418 "Il Boemo," the nickname of Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), stemmed from the difficulties experienced in pronouncing his name by Italians, and Il divino Boemo, from a late-19th-century novelette.Mozart was an admirer, and this new CD by Concerto Köln attests to an increasing band of like-minded folk in the 21st century.