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Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is the Pelléas et Mélisande of its genre. Like Debussy’s opera, this music exists in a kind of otherworld, removed from standard
The Phoenix Chorale (formerly the Phoenix Bach Choir) and its director Charles Bruffy have made some fine recordings for Chandos, and here is another. While
Although this is not a new release (it was first issued in 1995, in the days pre-Classicstoday.com), its program and performances are very worthy of
Although the CD catalog doesn’t reflect Cristóbal de Morales’ deserving position among the greatest Renaissance composers–only a handful of discs are devoted to his music–this
Polish composer Maciej Malecki (b.1940) describes this 50-minute concert work as “my own musical elaboration of Polish Christmas songs”–and while the title tune didn’t originate
This new release from Hyperion shows why the label is so revered by collectors: assuming the usual high quality of performers and engineering, you have
Penderecki deserves a great deal of credit for turning his back on the avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s, recognizing much of it for the
For more than 25 years Peter Phillips and his Tallis Scholars have shown how scrupulous dedication to a specialty (Renaissance vocal music), uncompromising performance standards,
It’s not easy to conceive and successfully impose a concert-performance dynamic on the formal, square structures of Tallis’ Psalm-tune settings, bringing an air of excitement
Although this isn’t exactly a “classical music recording”–the arrangements and instrumentation definitely say “pop”–the theme (clearly stated in the disc title!) is Christmas, and most
