There are many beautiful things about these recordings of Bach's Magnificat and Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis Cantata, but beauty isn't really the ultimate point. With Sigiswald Kuijken leading four totally dedicated soloists plus La Petite Bande, truth is the point, the kind of incontrovertible, unrelenting, and unyielding truth that wakes you up in ...
Mauricio Kagel is modernist whose music is easy to love. The program booklet's graphic layout and notes for the percussion setup for Kagel's Serenade are a perfect illustration of the composer's playfulness, the profligacy of his inventiveness, and his disregard for convention of any kind. The setup includes, among many other things, hurdy-gurdy, ...
No matter how many recordings of Bach's B minor Mass you've heard -- and if you're any kind of spiritual being, you've heard dozens -- you should check out this recording with Jos van Veldhoven leading the collected vocal and instrumental forces of the Netherlands Bach Society. To some, of course, forces may be too strong a word. With five ...
This handsome sewn-binding package contains a reissued 1995 performance of Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine (Vespers) of 1610, together with a hefty new booklet delivering nice reproductions of artwork of the period along with a great deal of information about this genuinely magnificent work and its context. The Vespers and the opera Orfeo ...
Little Imber is a small, ancient British town that was evacuated of its inhabitants and used as a training site for urban warfare during the Second World War. For Giya Kancheli, its war-torn architecture and desolation were reminiscent of his native Georgia. His Little Imber is scored for instrumental ensemble, solo voice, and children's and men's ...
That Bach's motets are not his most popular sacred choral works is easily explainable. When asked to choose between the Passions' spiritual drama, the Mass' magnificent architecture, the cantatas' infinite diversity, or the motets' inward piety, most listeners will more likely choose any of the former before the latter. Still, for concentrated ...
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