
Sammartini is an important composer in the history of the symphony, but that doesn’t mean that he wrote important symphonies. These brief, pleasant works, all
Charming, functional, well-crafted, tuneful–all of these describe the music in the seven cantatas performed on this fine recording. Of course, Dietrich Buxtehude is best known
This is the 1754 revision of Rameau’s 1737 masterpiece. The earlier version was coolly received as a result of the Lulliste-Ramiste battles that were waged
So, the debate over how many singers and players to a part in Bach’s cantatas lives on. This time, it’s another vote for the Joshua
It might seem odd that the main work on a disc featuring works of Purcell probably was not even written by the great 17th-century English