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 ...
When this recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion was made in May 2005, Helmut Müller-Brühl had been leading the Cologne Chamber Orchestra for 41 years. He led them first on modern instruments from 1964 until 1976, then switched them to period instruments, then switched them back again to modern instruments in 1987. The result is not schizophrenic ...
The age of miracles has not yet passed. After centuries of revolutions and wars and genocides, it is still possible for love and laughter to be prized and praised. And the proof is this recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Claudio Abbado directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and a cast of mostly young and ...
The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, according to the liner notes of this album, plays "according to the principles of historical performance-practice on modern instruments and so can meet the needs of modern concert halls." This is nonsense, sloppily expressed (do concert halls have needs? desires maybe?). Performances by historical-instrument groups ...
The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, according to the liner notes of this album, plays "according to the principles of historical performance-practice on modern instruments and so can meet the needs of modern concert halls." This is nonsense, sloppily expressed (do concert halls have needs? desires maybe?). Performances by historical-instrument groups ...
This three-CD set from Harmonia Mundi purports on the packaging to offer "the finest masses in musical history." Of course that's an impossible goal, and the liner notes back off from it with various disclaimers. The question to ask about a set like this, assembled from existing Harmonia Mundi releases going back to 1986, is whether it either ...
On this 2007 double disc, which completes his series of recordings of Gustav Mahler's symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon, Pierre Boulez leads the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Berlin State Opera Chorus, the Berlin Radio Symphony Chorus, the Aurelius Boys Choir of Calw, and eight vocal soloists in an earnest but unconvincing reading of the Symphony No. ...
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