Rilling; Helmuth

Mozart: Requiem/Exsultate/Rilling, etc.

David Vernier

Instead of Arleen Augér and the Requiem, the cover of this Sony Essential Classics disc should feature Judith Blegen and Exsultate, jubilate, for it’s this

Bach: B-minor Mass/Rilling

David Hurwitz

Helmut Rilling’s Bach still has not received the acclaim it surely deserves, particularly from the critical community in English-speaking countries. The reasons are not hard

Augér Does Bach Arias

John Greene

Arguably, Helmuth Rilling’s epic complete recording cycle of J.S. Bach’s sacred and secular cantatas for Hänssler would not have been nearly as auspicious had it

Hänssler Fischer-Dieskau Bach

John Greene

This CD is a mid-price reissue of a disc originally released in 1992 (Hänssler 98903). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s performance of BWV 82 also is included in

Bach Magnificat etc/Rilling Hanssler C

Jed Distler

Bach’s Magnificat radiates spiritual joy and compositional daring, qualities Helmuth Rilling broaches but never quite embraces in his new recording of this popular work. This

Rilling Dvorak TeDeum

David Hurwitz

Mendelssohn’s setting of Psalm 42 (the poetically inane booklet translation of the first line reads “As the hart panteth after the water brooks/So panteth my