Thankfully, Sigiswald Kuijken doesn't feel the overwhelming urge to record every extant sacred cantata by J.S. Bach. That project would have consumed years of his life -- and at best only equaled the achievements of other, earlier explorers. By choosing to record only enough cantatas to span a single liturgical year of Sundays plus the major holy ...
You don't have to think hard to remember a time when almost any recording of Monteverdi's great sacred masterwork Vespro della Beata Vergine (also known as his "1610 Vespers") was in some way deficient; either by way of bad singing, too heavy a realization of the continuo, what have you. Fast forward to the twenty first century and you have an ...
It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between performances of Bach's B minor Mass than Otto Klemperer's 1967 recording featuring the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, and Sigiswald Kuijken's 2009 version with La Petite Band. Klemperer's recording features a star-studded cast of soloists and sounds as if it were carved from giant ...
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