Horenstein Mozart Req

This recording’s severely limited dynamic range gives the impression of a rather small chorus, in line with today’s authentic practices, but then you realize that

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Horenstein-Beethoven

Comparatively speaking, there’s nothing particularly characterful here. Jascha Horenstein paces the first movement with urgency and clarity, generating considerable excitement at the climaxes–but then, so

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puccini mass emi C

Although these are mere chips from the master’s workshop, insatiable Puccini fans will want every scrap they can get. To those not so addicted, the

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Bruckner Mess

John Eliot Gardiner makes heavy weather of Bruckner’s D minor Mass, an already weighty work that in this performance won’t win many new adherents, even

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BAROQUE-POP

This compilation of hand-picked favorites from the catalog of lutenist/guitarist Daniel Benko (hand-picked, that is, by Benko himself), is not, as the title suggests, a

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