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Silence is a highly underrated component of music. But to fully appreciate and understand–especially in the world of a cappella music–it’s necessary to focus on
In the past few months at least eight recordings of
Paul McCreesh, like Christopher Hogwood, uses the original forces that Haydn expected in this work: that is, triple winds, double trumpets and timpani, and a
This new Mozart C minor Mass has two major assets: Sarah Connolly, who sings the Laudamus te, and an outstanding chorus. It also has soprano
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
This beautiful, moving oratorio has been lucky on discs. Currently available are John Eliot Gardiner’s superb account on Philips and a performance on Naxos led
Alert the media! Paul McCreesh has a “concept”: play it small, play it fast. That’s it. You don’t need to bother with the rationale discussed
Just in time for Easter, Archiv offers a new recording of J.S. Bach’s under-recorded Easter Oratorio BWV 249 combined with his much-recorded Magnificat BWV 243.
Here’s another of Paul McCreesh’s “as it might have been” reconstructions, this time of the First Mass of Christmas in Venice’s St. Mark’s church “around
Heinrich Schütz didn’t write a work titled Christmas Vespers, but the important Lutheran church celebrations of the feast of Christmas in late-17th century Dresden included
