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The reason to buy this set is for the Magnificat, the original but rarely recorded E-flat version from 1723, which certainly gets its most exciting
Two cantatas, one secular, one sacred, each concerned in very different ways with respect for one who has died, show how Bach treated musically the
Conductors coming to the Fauré Requiem have choices: The original, 1888 version with only five movements of the eventual seven and very minimal instrumentation; the
On its initial release in 1985, this recording of Bach’s
Philippe Herreweghe really ought not to be conducting romantic orchestral music. He has no feeling for it at all. In the baroque works on which
Return with me, if you will, to the exciting days
The reference recordings listed above give a good sense of the range of interpretation in this music on modern instruments, from period-influenced (Vänskä) to German
Perversity can be fun. Celibidache, for example, was perverse, but there was method to his madness, and an undeniable level of commitment to anything he
This Beethoven Ninth, the second such offering from Philippe Herreweghe, marks the completion of his cycle with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. After the recent Krivine
This is an excellent, imaginative coupling of familiar and unfamiliar works united in being either religious in inspiration, or consisting of imaginative reworkings of earlier
