
This two-fer (two CDs at reduced price) is worth buying for the first CD alone. Rinaldo Alessandrini has “reconstructed”–from bits of Monteverdi’s religious music–what he
The immediate question is, how does this new recording of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers measure up to the several existing versions in the catalog? These same
After a rather sluggish, unfocused beginning, this fine chorus gradually–and I emphasize the word “gradually”–regroups and by the middle of the Gloria of the Mass
Wendy Carlos’ electronic realizations of Bach and other Baroque giants set the classical music world on its ear 30 years ago with the release of