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Virtually the same comments I made in my earlier review of these same performers’ recording of the Lassus Penitential Psalms (type Q10113 in Search Reviews)
This is an easy recommendation. With music this ingratiating and performances so absolutely idiomatic and interpretively “right”, you simply can’t go wrong. The choir, which
Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is the Pelléas et Mélisande of its genre. Like Debussy’s opera, this music exists in a kind of otherworld, removed from standard
From the first song, “Die Verschweigung”, tenor Werner Güra assures us that we’re in for a lively, engaging recital with a gorgeous, technically and expressively
As a composer, Mendelssohn has a reputation for being cute and zippy, graceful and tasteful in an inhibited, Victorian sort of way, and so he
It’s not easy to conceive and successfully impose a concert-performance dynamic on the formal, square structures of Tallis’ Psalm-tune settings, bringing an air of excitement
The centerpiece of this very interesting and well-planned recital consists of a dynamite performance of Alkan’s blisteringly difficult Sonate de concert for cello and piano.
These kinds of programs have been done many times before–you know, “recreations” and “reconstructions” of songs from medieval times, especially from such sources as King
This fascinating set will be essential listening for fans of the most famous Bach, for it helps put in perspective Johann Sebastian’s historical position–but more
Here is yet another superlative recording that some collectors may inadvertently pass over–even chamber music enthusiasts. After all, cello sonatas aren’t everyday fare, and these
