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 ...
This 2008 Harmonia Mundi recording of Philippe Herreweghe leading the Collegium Vocale Gent represents Bach at his most poetically grim. Opening with "Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende" (Who knows how soon my end is) (BWV 27) and closing with "Komm, du susse Todesstunde" (Come, sweet hour of death) (BWV 161), it incarnates the grim ethos of the ...
Giovanni Rovetta was Claudio Monteverdi's successor at St. Mark's cathedral in Venice, a fact that by itself should have accorded him more attention than he has received from performers up to this 2001 West German Radio recording by the Cantus Cölln, reissued in an attractive budget-priced release by Harmonia Mundi in its Musique d'abord series. ...
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