First things first: if you're seeing a picture of this disc on the site of an online retailer, be aware that it contains the Mass in C minor, K. 427, not the "Mass in C," promised by the cover, which would more likely be the "Coronation" Mass in C major, K. 337. It is always a shame when designers are given power of diktat over content editors. ...
Despite his new career as a conductor of romantic and modern repertoire with the great symphony orchestras of Europe and America, John Eliot Gardiner still finds the time to make the occasional recording with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, the band and chorus he founded and with which he rose to fame in the '80s. In this ...
Maybe you've wondered about whether this could work. What happens if you drop modern operatic stars into early music? Specifically, into early music as performed by a group with such an unerring way of making seventeenth century music come alive as Le Concert d'Astrée and its conductor, Emmanuelle Haïm? Would the forces clash? Would the style ...
Aulis Sallinen turned 70 in 2005, and Barabbas Dialogues is one of his later pieces, composed in 2002 and 2003. Sallinen was one of the first composers who came of age in the era of the so-called "International Style," only to ultimately turn his back on the "dreaded system," and he did so without the benefit of minimalist techniques. As such, ...
First things first: if you're seeing a picture of this disc on the site of an online retailer, be aware that it contains the Mass in C minor, K. 427, not the "Mass in C," promised by the cover, which would more likely be the "Coronation" Mass in C major, K. 337. It is always a shame when designers are given power of diktat over content editors. ...
The logistical efforts involved in the making of this album must have been as strenuous as those on the musical side, for this is one of the first real all-star releases to have emerged from the historical-instrument side of the recording catalog. Lovers of vocal music per se may be interested in the dsic purely because it offers a rare ...
French soprano Sandrine Piau, despite her frequent appearances on Baroque recordings, may not seem a first choice for the sheer athleticism of Handel, but wait until you hear her. Piau substitutes grace, precision, and sheer beauty for brawn, and the results are astonishing. She chooses arias ideally suited to her talents. "Rejoice greatly," from ...
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