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If the idea of watching a Mass on DVD doesn’t seem all that inspiring, consider that the work in question is Janácek’s powerful Glagolitic Mass.
These performances, taken from Naxos’ complete Haydn Mass edition (on balance the finest set available), are well-nigh ideal. Two quibbles: the male soloists aren’t quite
As with the work itself, there’s no recording of Bach’s St. John Passion that stands as preeminent and certainly none that can claim to be
This is such attractive, pleasant music–I have to partly agree with some contemporary critics who apparently “complained” that Haydn’s late Masses (including these two) were
This performance isn’t perfect technically: the chorus gets a little bit off the beat in its first stanza, there are a couple of unimportant brass
Bach’s Magnificat in D major is one of those rare works in which music and text are brought together in perfect symmetry and harmony, all
For some performers these days, rendering of Bach’s choral works comes down to a numbers game: from the most basic cantata to the most elaborate
Extraordinarily well-written, prodigiously inventive, and relentlessly exciting–these aren’t terms normally used to describe 18th-century Masses, but then there is nothing “normal” about this late work
Telemann used to be much maligned; it was believed that he wrote too much. As it turns out, his average was pretty high: most of
Riccardo Chailly and his Dresden and Leipzig forces have created a great modern interpretation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio that realizes the truest elements of period-performance
