
Czech composer Jan Vorišek (1791-1825) was a talented musician just beginning to make a name for himself, particularly as a composer of piano music, when
Refined, reverential, and yet specially charged in its sincere, soulful human expression–not to mention its gorgeous choral sonority–this may be the finest performance on disc
We last encountered the 6-voice Italian male ensemble Delitiae Musicae in its series of Monteverdi madrigals for Naxos (type Q7709, Q7721, and Q10219 in Search
When the end of 2011 comes, this masterpiece from Joel Frederiksen and his Ensemble Phoenix Munich will reside among the best of what undoubtedly will
The Second and the Eighth are the two symphonies missing from James Levine’s Mahler cycle for RCA, recorded during the late 1970s through the mid-’80s.
If you’re familiar with previous releases in Channel Classics’ collaboration with the Museum Catharijneconvent, the “museum of Christian art and culture” in Utrecht—Bach’s Christmas Oratorio,
Whatever possesses humans to refine the art of singing to such a level of sonorous purity and expressive simplicity as exemplified by the three women
Harmonia Mundi already has a fine set of the six Bach Motets in its catalog–by René Jacobs and the RIAS-Kammerchor–but this excellent new one ups
If you’re a fan of Schubert’s sacred choral music, this Naxos series, which includes all six Masses and other church works, promises consistently fine performances
It’s impossible to connect the composer of Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Die Winterreise (1827) with the creator of these Masses, which Schubert wrote in