No matter how many times you've heard Le nozze di Figaro, you owe it to yourself to hear this Le nozze di Figaro. It is fresh and funny and silly and moving and enchanting and as wise and as knowing as the work itself. The singers are the ideal kind of opera singers who make you forget they're singing because their acting is so good and their ...
Even in context of the original instruments and historically informed performance practice movement, there are other ways to perform Bach's B minor Mass than the way Philippe Herreweghe performs it. To name only the most obvious alternatives, there's the austerely inward Leonhardt approach, the extravagantly outward Gardiner approach, and the ...
Orlande de Lassus' Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales (Penitential Psalms of David) is the Renaissance master's setting of seven Davidic psalms -- 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 -- sometimes referred to as the "psalms of confession." As the result of a proclamation of Pope Innocent III, who died in 1216, these particular psalms are read during Lent, ...
Helig, heilig, heilig ist Gott ("Holy, Holy, Holy is God") comes from a portion of the catalog of Georg Philipp Telemann not often sampled on recordings, the cantatas he composed for the consecration of churches. They are 13 in number, minus two that are lost, and certain ones contain some of Telemann's biggest and boldest conceptions in sacred ...
Long one of the finest living interpreters of Bach's sacred music, Philippe Herreweghe here adds two secular cantatas to an already distinguished discography. In the festive Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten and the celebratory Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten, Herreweghe leads his Collegium Vocale, Ghent in performances of rare ...
Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent have already made a couple of other great Schütz recordings. There's the heartrending Musikalische Exequien from 1987 and the awe-inspiring Geistliche Chormusik from 1994. But good as those recordings were, they aren't in the same league as this 2005 recording of Schütz's opus ultimum, his ...
Philippe Herreweghe and the Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale 1998 recording of Purcell's celebratory masterpiece may be more a Vivat! Radieuse Cecile, Vivat! than Hail, Bright Cecilia, but it is still one of the all-time great recordings of the work. Herreweghe more than almost any other conductor of the past 20 years captures the heights ...
As Oscar Wilde once averred, all bad art is sincere, but it doesn't necessarily follow that all sincere artists are bad. Philippe Herreweghe is sincere to the souls of his shoes and he is anything but bad. Indeed, that he is so self-consciously sincere only makes him a better conductor, because one gets the sense that Herreweghe would rather die ...
There are folks out there who never care to attend another Measure for Measure, who never care to watch another Modern Times, and who never care to hear another Le Nozze di Figaro because to them, comedy is obviously a lesser art form than tragedy. To them one can only say: "too bad!" because as this immensely musical and enormously humorous ...
If the idea of six sorrowful sacred cantatas written by four pre-Bach German composers appeals to you, this disc by the Collegium Vocale Gent under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe is the disc for you. Opening with three works by Lübeck organist Franz Tunder (1614-1667) -- Dominus illuminatio mea, Wend' ab deinen Zorn, and an Ein feste Burg ...
In a time when Bach cantatas are recorded in big bunches, it's a pleasure to find a single-disc grouping, beautifully selected and performed. Weinen, Klagen... (Weeping, Lamentation...) presents three cantatas with a common theme and plan. The theme of lamentation in the face of suffering and death transmuted into the comfort of Christ is a common ...
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