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Pinnock’s Handel: Bigger and Cheaper

David Hurwitz

You can purchase this 11-disc set of all of Trevor […]

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Big Boxes: A Mid-Size Chunk of Excellent Vivaldi

David Hurwitz

Choosing Vivaldi recordings is like buying cheese: you do it

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Filling in the Gaps: Mozart’s Thamos, King of Egypt

David Hurwitz

Mozart spent a good seven years, on and off, working

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Reference Recording: Pinnock’s Super Haydn Nelson Mass

David Hurwitz

This must be one of the best recordings of classical

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Big Boxes: Mozart Symphonies by Pinnock Still Going Strong

Michael Liebowitz

Trevor Pinnock’s set of Mozart symphonies, recorded between 1992 and

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Jewels From The Archiv Catalog–55 CDs Worth

Robert Levine

This 55-CD set chronicles the remarkable Archiv label, begun in

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J.S. Bach: Actus tragicus/Gardiner

David Vernier

First, to dispel any confusion: Although this latest installment of John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Pilgrimage” series looks like a new release, it’s not. It is

#$Handel: Alcina/DiDonato/Curtis

Robert Levine

The early-’60s Joan Sutherland/Decca recording of this opera–despite a large orchestra, cuts, Sutherland-without-consonants and at times sounding morose, with a showy aria given to Alcina

CONCERTO VENEZIANO

David Hurwitz

This disc is really something special. Collectors are so spoiled for choice in the baroque repertoire at present, particularly on period instruments, but even in

Mozart: Violin concertos Nos. 1-5/Carmignola

David Hurwitz

This is without question the finest set of Mozart violin concertos on period instruments. Claudio Abbado’s set of symphonies with his not-terribly-wonderful period-instrument group may