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Since his atrocious recording of Bach’s B minor Mass, it’s been difficult to take Marc Minkowski seriously, and unfortunately this new release only adds fuel
There’s a big difference between authenticity with respect to circumstance and being true to the work in question. This release offers a case in point.
There are many very good recordings of this music, but few truly great ones, and even fewer that make the music sound new (and old–more
Magdalena Kožená is a remarkable singer. Her voice is a somewhat light mezzo with many colors, and she can shade it to a whisper or
This disc presents the world-premiere recording of Offenbach’s monumental Cello Concerto as originally composed and scored. The various manuscripts were only recently discovered and reassembled,
There’s a fundamental element of hypocrisy at the heart of many “historically informed” performances. It is this: whatever elements of style and sonority the ensemble
This is a great work, and this recording does it justice. Gluck is not one of my favorites; all of his “reforms” seem to get
This is a performance of Gluck’s 1774 revision of his opera for Paris, with the replacement of the castrato role of Orphée with a high
The “proibita” of this CD’s title comes from the Catholic Church: For most of the first 10 years of the 18th century, dramatic performances in
Often these major-label compilations brought out for Christmas-season consumption seem thrown together by someone in the marketing department who knows nothing about music, and even
