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In the past few months at least eight recordings of […]
Paul McCreesh, like Christopher Hogwood, uses the original forces that Haydn expected in this work: that is, triple winds, double trumpets and timpani, and a
This new Mozart C minor Mass has two major assets: Sarah Connolly, who sings the Laudamus te, and an outstanding chorus. It also has soprano
This beautiful, moving oratorio has been lucky on discs. Currently available are John Eliot Gardiner’s superb account on Philips and a performance on Naxos led
Just in time for Easter, Archiv offers a new recording of J.S. Bach’s under-recorded Easter Oratorio BWV 249 combined with his much-recorded Magnificat BWV 243.
Here’s another of Paul McCreesh’s “as it might have been” reconstructions, this time of the First Mass of Christmas in Venice’s St. Mark’s church “around
Heinrich Schütz didn’t write a work titled Christmas Vespers, but the important Lutheran church celebrations of the feast of Christmas in late-17th century Dresden included
Handel’s Theodora remains one of his least known oratorios. A late work, he reputedly valued it highly despite the public’s cool reception on its initial
I’m always a little skeptical about reconstructions, whether it’s historic buildings or historic musical performances, especially when I see the words “as it might have
With all our high tech gimmickry and huge-budget spectacles–from super bowls to celebrity funerals to millennium parties–we think we know how to do celebrations. But
