American composer Morten Lauridsen is a master of writing choral music that is harmonically lush, contrapuntally interesting, melodically memorable, and gratifying to sing. This disc brings together four of his most popular works, which include three cycles -- Les Chansons des Roses, Lux Aeterna, Madrigali -- as well as his setting of O Magnum ...
There are only two things wrong with this set of the complete a cappella choral works of Brahms by Nicol Matt conducting the Chamber Choir of Europe: it's not quite complete and it's not quite a cappella. There are a good half-dozen works with accompaniment, usually a piano or two, and once with two horns and a harp. That's fine: it put even more ...
The Brilliant label, from the Netherlands, has inundated the Western world with its giant budget boxes. What might be called bulk classical has intrinsic virtues and negatives, but like anything else it can be done well or done poorly. This Mozart box contains no fewer than 15 CDs, at just over five dollars a disc. It contains every piece of ...
Nicol Matt's 2001 performance of the Requiem in D minor, K. 626, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been reissued several times as a single disc and as part of box sets of the choral works, so its ready availability and straightforward presentation of the completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, which is the most widely accepted version, make this a fairly ...
Mozart's one-act opera Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) was written to be performed as half of a double bill that included Salieri's Prima la musica, e poi le parole (First the music, and then the words) in 1786. Both operas deal with the clash of artistic temperaments as impediments to the production of an opera. In Der Schauspieldirektor, ...
This complete recording of the trumpet concertos of German High Baroque composer Johann Melchior Molter actually includes the concertos in which the trumpet plays any role at all, and this is its biggest strength. Sample some of the concertos on the second CD, such as the Sonata Grossa for three trumpets, two oboes, timpani, strings, and continuo, ...
As late as the 1970s, Apollo et Hyacinthus was the one Mozart opera that listeners couldn't find at all on records -- the record companies presumably figured "after all, how good can it be? Mozart composed it when he was 11." Indeed, Leopold Hager was the first conductor to record Apollo et Hyacinthus in 1981, and its fortunes have hardly improved ...
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