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Among the catalog’s many scintillating period-instrument recordings of Vivaldi concertos, this release gets the “shock and awe” award. At first you’ll be shocked (well, at
Love her or not, Cecilia Bartoli has done it again. You can argue with her breathy production, her “shotgun” approach to fast coloratura, and other
There are several very fine period-performance recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the catalog, including the two reference versions listed above, and this one, from
This stunning new audiophile recording of three of Handel’s popular works is most welcome. The Ode is a wonderful work, written in 1739, in which
It would be difficult for first-rate performers to diminish the glory of Palestrina’s music, whether it’s cast with one singer to a part or several,
There’s only one problem with this otherwise excellently played and recorded program: a certain lack of dynamic range that makes all of the slow movements
Bach’s orchestral suites always have done well on disc. BIS recently released an outstanding SACD featuring the Japan Bach Collegium, and this newcomer is equally
Here is a perfectly fine rendition of Bach’s ever-popular and oft-performed-and-recorded Magnificat in D major. The Choir of the Swiss Radio in Lugano is an
Conductor Diego Fasolis and his Coro della Radio Svizzera always can be counted on for a very good show, and this one, featuring two well-known
Conductor Diego Fasolis and his very capable forces do everything they can to breathe life into these two competently written though stylistically mediocre and often
