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This presentation of the first six of Handel’s Op. 6 concerti grossi is vibrant, uninhibited, almost aggressive in some cases, but always thoroughly centered in
This project began as an idea for a staged performance involving a “garden”, the “tragic and joyous fates of ancient heroines”, a “revelation of the
It’s the way these things often happen: it had been a while since I last heard a recording of Handel’s Op. 3, and this one
Fine performances of Handel’s delightful, brief pastoral are not rare: John Butt leads the Dunedin Consort in a five-voice version (as it was in 1718
This is a fine idea, beautifully executed. The similarities between Baroque music and minimalism may be somewhat shallow, but they’re valid: repetition, variations slight and
I was looking forward to liking this: a good Messiah
The liner notes to this recording consist of a short story by Guy de Maupassant. It’s actually a charming story about a “rather sad” law
Wait. What’s that snare drum doing there? And is that a harp in “Comfort ye”? Brass and winds–lots of them–in the Sinfonia? (Someone forgot to
As if not being familiar with Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes
The solo vocal Handel recording (rivaled perhaps only by Schubert
