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If ever there was a case to be made for the virtues of spending a good hour listening to obscure 18th-century Italian cantatas for solo
The suite from Henry Purcell’s opera The Fairy Queen (1692) is the more substantial and more interesting of the two works on this disc. It
Everything about this CD is remarkable. First, there is Purcell’s music–mature, moody, and complex fantasies for various combinations of viols, masterfully written by a composer
Never has so much color, character, and attitude (in the best sense) been lavished on Handel’s well-worn, molto-recorded, and verging-on-saturation-level masterpiece known as the Water
Jordi Savall’s Monteverdi Vespers returns at mid-price in a clumsily packaged folding paper album whose design makes it impossible to get at the text and
Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin work rather well on the guitar or lute, as Paul Galbraith’s recent guitar versions for Delos have demonstrated.
In 1606, French composer Eustache du Caurroy wrote a requiem mass that was to become the official requiem sung at the funerals of the kings
With the exception of his Vivaldi recording, Rolf Lislevand has established his recorded reputation championing obscure composers such as Kapsberger, Sanz, Van Eyck, and Murcia.
Royal weddings have been major extravaganzas throughout history and the ceremonies often included excellent music composed especially for the occasion. On this recording Denis Raisin-Dadre
These performances have got nothing if not style–and charisma to burn. And burn is what the first aria does, its fire flaming directly from the
