In the hinterlands of Catholic Germany -- Munich, to be precise -- they still honor the great religious works of Austro-Germanic composers, works that most of the rest of the music-loving world more or less completely ignores. As this 1997 recording of Haydn's Missa Cellensis demonstrates, even third-string performers in the Bavarian capital are ...
The British choir Laudibus some years ago issued a re-creation of the sound and repertory of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on the Hyperion label, and listeners whose interest was piqued by that release can now try out the real thing. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir was founded in 1906, evolving out of an earlier group with the less mellifluous name of ...
Part of a series of discs devoted to forgotten composers associated with the Bavarian capital of Munich, this release exemplifies the city's still-palpable conservatism. Franz Lachner, who grew up so poor that he and his five siblings had to study music by drumming their fingers on an imaginary keyboard, made his living as composers had for ...
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