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I admit it was the cover that got my attention–first, the title, referring to an 1120-page manuscript collection containing the only existing original copies of
Sometimes you come across a performance that may not be exactly to your taste, but is nonetheless so persuasive of its type that it disarms
This is a very good Messiah–excellent in many respects–and it would have been among the reference versions but for a couple of issues. Thankfully the
As we come to the end of Hyperion’s ambitious and critically acclaimed Vivaldi sacred music project–one more volume to go–Robert King introduces us not only
Here is everything you would expect to find on a very good 1970s-era recording of English madrigals. First, the music–you could call this program of
Early music always has been a sort of premium, upper-class enterprise, exemplified by really expensive concerts and top-price recordings by groups such as Anonymous 4
I was not in a Monteverdi mood; I haven’t been impressed with Italian vocal ensembles in recent years; and these madrigals never were among my
This is not technically a “new” release, but its existence and reissue in 2007 on the Tallis Scholars’ Gimell label may come as something of
Despite the somewhat sterile concert-hall ambiance, this King’s Singers’ performance at the 2008 BBC Proms gives listeners a fair representation of the group’s live concerts,
King’s Singers fans who particularly appreciate the group’s smoothly polished, impeccably balanced interpretations of English, French, and German partsong repertoire will be delighted with this
