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Just when you thought you didn’t need yet another Mahler […]
No need to mince words here: this is the finest
Imagine sitting for nearly two uninterrupted hours listening solely to sacred choral music by Vivaldi. Normally I would think of that as something that should
Schumann worked on his Scenes from Faust for some nine years, from 1847 until just before his attempted suicide. It contains some of his finest
If you like your Christmas Oratorio in halves (the first three cantatas are available on a separate disc), this recent release from the Augsburg Cathedral
While not a Christmas recording, the presence of such classics as “Quelle est cette odeur agréable?” and “Sweet little Jesus boy”, along with the Christmas-themed
There are several very fine period-performance recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the catalog, including the two reference versions listed above, and this one, from
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
Hearing the three dramatic chords that open the Zauberharfe overture played by this excellent Swiss orchestra (the oldest in Switzerland) I was immediately struck by
Judas Maccabaeus was Handel’s most popular oratorio during his lifetime. It was meant to celebrate the victory of the Duke of Cumberland over the Jacobites’
