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Listening to Daniel Harding’s traversal of Carmina Burana you get the impression of a project long on obligation and short on inspiration. O Fortuna starts
This is a very respectable Christmas Oratorio, one that may have been forgotten by collectors–it is a reissue of an Erato production from 1984–but whose
As with its two predecessors, Baltic Voices 3 features several CD premieres along with first-rate renditions of important but little-known works from the latter 20th-century,
I never thought I’d find myself wanting to review a recording of Orff’s Carmina Burana, but this one with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra caught
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio not only contains some of his most inspired, exuberant music, but also features introspective arias that rival those in the cantatas and
As time goes on, Helmuth Rilling and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart’s achievement only grows in stature, especially now that Teldec’s Bach Edition has vanished into Warner’s
Herbert Howells’ choral masterpiece, the Requiem, has been well served on CD and this performance from one of Cambridge’s legendary choirs adds itself to the
In 1994 Jeremy Backhouse and his Vasari Singers recorded Herbert Howells’ Requiem and Frank Martin’s Mass for a British label called United. The packaging touted
Although you can find many of the works on this program scattered across other compilations both devoted to Herbert Howells and combined with music by
Herbert Howells’ music provides little comfort for listeners looking for a pretty melody, polite harmony, or airy texture. And the fact that most of it
