It's odd, inasmuch as Renaissance music is unfamiliar even to many listeners enthusiastic about classical music in general, but single-disc introductions to Renaissance music have been rare. This Analekta-label release presumes no knowledge at all, offering single-page overviews not only of what the Renaissance is but also of the notion of ...
Masques is a young, photogenic, Montreal-based ensemble specializing in repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the cover of their English Fancy CD, dressed all in white, they look like Amici Forever or one of the other English crossover bands. Either that or like they just came from day jobs at a hospital. Under the covers, ...
Marin Marais (1656-1728), the subject of the popular 1991 film Tous les matins du monde, is best known today for his music for gamba, but he was prolific in a variety of genres and wrote some of the most important French operas between Lully and Rameau. Because of its dramatic weakness, Sémélé (1709) was not among his most successful works, but ...
The listener may be surprised to find such familiar works as Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat on a recording of music for women's choir. Conductor Matthias Maute offers this rationale for this unusual presentation of works that were scored for mixed voices. The composer wrote these, and many of his works, for the girls and young women of the ...
Given the close links between Bach's sacred music and the specific requirements of his vocation as a church musician, it's a bit odd that recordings specifically exploring Bach's musical thinking about the liturgical year are so rare, especially since, as annotator Lucie Renaud points out, Bach himself told one of his organ students that he should ...
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