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In the grand history of choral music, writing specifically for children’s choir is something top-rank composers have taken to only relatively recently. Benjamin Britten was
There are no less than four recording premieres on this program, an aspect of many of Cedille’s projects over the years that perhaps doesn’t get
Finally, here is a recording of Bach’s motets (sung at
One of the problems with recommending reference recordings for composers
This magnificent performance was recorded in Edinburgh in 1960. But caveat emptor: the sound is sub-standard by a long shot. There is a major drop-out:
Listening to the first four measures of the prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum, it’s understandable that one might think “Gesualdo”, given the striking,
Theodora is an oratorio and not an opera. It is a pious piece, with an unambiguously Christian subject matter. It first appeared in 1750 at
Some people just aren’t fans of the grandiose, temporally elongated, performer-heavy choral works that perennially seem to draw equally grand, populous audiences to the world’s
John Eliot Gardiner has been doing Bach for a very long time (not to mention Handel and Brahms); he and his Monteverdi Choir have made
There are two prime candidates for reference recording in Mahler’s
