French composer Guillaume Connesson, born in 1970, is a genuine eclectic with a strong populist streak. His music is recognizably French -- it's easy to detect its lineage from Debussy through Ravel, Poulenc, and Messiaen, even to the influence of spectralists like Murail. There's a directness of emotional expression and a French sense of ...
Recording Handel's operas can be tricky. Overly immaculate studio readings tend to rob the long chains of recitatives and arias of the immediacy they need to stay interesting; and live recordings tend to be messy, not to mention noisy. This Agrippina, by Jean-Claude Malgoire and La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, and starring Veronique Gens as ...
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