
This CD’s subtitle, “20th century entertainments”, better describes the musical program than the rather corny “French Dressing”. The selections are indeed entertaining, from Milhaud’s clever
You may remember a few years ago the Orlando Consort’s magnificent debut for Harmonia Mundi, titled “Food, Wine, & Song”, which celebrated music and food
The volume was turned slightly higher than my normal listening level when I began playing this CD–and it was a happy coincidence. The room-filling brilliance
This is a very attractive program that includes many of the most well loved of William Byrd’s sacred choral works. While the Ave verum corpus
Here, two quartets–a male ensemble from Austria and a women’s group from Slovenia–join for what could have been a program of limited appeal to a
Here is a fascinating program of Poulenc’s major secular a cappella choral works brilliantly conducted and sung by Laurence Equilbey and the young virtuosi of
In its new series of mid-price reissues of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers’ “most acclaimed recordings”, Collegium understandably has chosen to include this outstanding
Colin Davis recorded a Kullervo Symphony with the LSO as part of his often lousy complete symphony cycle for RCA. His ongoing series of remakes
These performances feature some voices that have gone on to bigger things, most notably Sandrine Piau, whose contributions to five numbers, particularly “Presso un fiume
Projects with a similar aim–to explore the “sacred bridges” between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism–have been done before, but this one does it uniquely through psalm