
On this welcome re-release conductor René Jacobs presents us with a cut-for-performance version of this, Monteverdi’s least overtly accessible opera. The recording followed on the
Coming right on the heels of the New York City Opera’s first-ever production of this opera is the re-release of its only–and only necessary–recording. Flavio
When this set appeared 12 years ago it pushed all the other recorded versions of Giulio Cesare aside, and now, examining it again and even
Carl Heinrich Graun was court composer to Frederick the Great of Prussia, and this opera was chosen to open the new opera house in Berlin
This recording was made during January 1978, at Palaja, Carcassonne, and remains a fine introduction to the polyphonic choral music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The Leçons
Thanks to countertenor/conductor René Jacobs’ musical curiosity, we have a new Baroque opera to contend with, and it’s very different from any of the Handel