Jean-Baptiste Lully, born Giovanni Battista Lulli in Florence in 1632, moved to France early in his career. By the time he turned 30, he had been named music master to the royal family and elevated to the nobility. Italian opera, particularly the works of Cavalli, had become hugely popular in France, and Lully took up the task of creating a ...
Is there a subgroup of works among the creations of top composers that has been more neglected than Mozart's songs? They're neglected partly because they're a very mixed bag; they were mostly composed for specific purposes, and they don't develop as a group in an orderly way as do, say, the piano concertos. At any rate, any new recording of Mozart ...
This disc compiles material from several discs by the impressive French-Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, some of them originally featuring music by various composers. If you're looking for a singer who will carom daringly around the corners of a showpiece Handel aria like Renée Fleming or Vivica Genaux, LeBlanc is not that performer; her voice is ...
Tafelmusik, Canada's leading Baroque orchestra, gets points for sheer ambition with this unusual children's release: it attempts to do nothing less than give the field of classical children's music a Baroque-era entry to match such favorites as A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Peter and the Wolf. The album contains a spoken story, with ...
The masterpieces of the High Baroque did not arise in isolation but were almost all steps in long traditions -- and are better understood as such. Recordings of Buxtehude's music have shed a good deal of light on Bach, for instance, and the wider dissemination of the North Italian concerto tradition has confirmed the role of Vivaldi as a daring ...
This disc is the debut entry in a full cycle of Bach's cantatas to come from Canada's Montreal Baroque historical performance ensemble. Conductor Eric Milnes opts for the controversial approach of having just one voice per part -- the four soloists, joined together -- in the choral movements, with no choir in sight. The result is a clean, sparse ...
Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc has done quite a bit of recording in the years leading up to this release with Les Voix Humaines, Ay que sí, particularly with Canadian label Atma Classique. You wouldn't know it by the raves about these albums in Gramophone, because it seems as though that most esteemed of classical publications isn't really paying ...
There is magic in this Die Zauberflöte -- the warmly glowing intonation of La Petite Bande, the pure Pamina of Suzie LeBlanc, the idealized Sorastro of Cornelius Hauptmann, the ardent Tamino of Christoph Genz, the robust Papageno of Stephan Genz, the lovely Papagna of Marie Kuijken, the deeply knowing conducting of Sigiswald Kuijken, even the ...
French music for much of its existence has been centered on Paris and Versailles, just over 10 miles away. Have you ever wondered about the composers who were active in smaller towns? This disc presents unearthed music by Pierre Bouteiller, who apparently worked in Troyes, southeast of Paris, at the end of the glittering seventeenth century. The ...
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