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This groundbreaking performance seems as if it is happening in […]
Allowing for the fact that for 100 years or more
I recall hearing a CD (Delos) starring a boy soprano named Bejun Mehta almost 20 years ago. He was amazing. Along with the usual Messiah
Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas has found favor on recordings: it easily fits on one disc, the score is full of wonderful music, even the
Insightful, energetic leadership, just-about-perfect playing from the orchestra and singing from the chorus, lively delivery of the dialogue, well-characterized performances of every musical number, entertaining
As usual with this subject matter, Orlando is the knight nobly torn between love and war, and Alcina is theoretically an evil sorceress. Orlando goes
Seldom has so much obvious talent and skill resulted in such unstylish, even perverse results. The Freiburger Barockorchester continues to impress as the ugliest ensemble,
If there never had been a J.S. Bach no doubt the name and oeuvre of Georg Philipp Telemann would be held in far greater esteem
René Jacobs gave us a recording of The Seasons that was absolutely stunning. This version of The Creation also has some very fine moments. First,
René Jacobs’ ongoing recorded survey of Mozart’s operas has reached the composer’s first masterpiece, Idomeneo, premiered in Munich in 1781. And again, Jacobs has proved
