Jean-Baptiste Lully, born Giovanni Battista Lulli in Florence in 1632, moved to France early in his career. By the time he turned 30, he had been named music master to the royal family and elevated to the nobility. Italian opera, particularly the works of Cavalli, had become hugely popular in France, and Lully took up the task of creating a ...
Let My Prayer Arise brings together three previously released CDs of music written for the liturgy of Orthodox Church, performed by Paul Hillier leading his Theatre of Voices and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Fragments, a collection of mostly brief solo and polyphonic settings of sacred texts, stretches the definition of "Orthodox ...
Shakespeare's Songbook is a two-CD set issued as a companion piece to a book by the same title, published by W.W. Norton in 2004. That book is an exhaustively researched survey of 160 songs that are woven into or even mentioned in Shakespeare's plays -- an admirable enterprise, since for four centuries, thespians have basically been winging it ...
CPO follows its stellar releases of Conradi's Ariadne and Lully's Thésée by the Boston Early Music Festival with an equally extraordinary performance of Lully's Psyché. These are works that have had limited exposure and are known far better by reputation than by performances or recordings. What's revelatory about the recordings of the Lully operas ...
This recording of Orfeo by performers from the Massachusetts-based Aston Magna Festival has many things to recommend it. Primary among its virtues is the dramatic urgency of the performance. The protagonist's dilemma is presented with heartbreaking poignancy; characteristic is the intensity of the Messenger's announcement of the news of Eurydice's ...
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