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Sounding much like an overdubbed Anonymous 4–with a slightly brighter sound and placed in a highly resonant acoustic space–the seven women of the a cappella
La verita in cimento (“Truth put to the test”), dating from 1720, is a superb, stageworthy work about a Sultan (Mamud), his wife (Rustena), his
This selection of Bach keyboard concertos may not constitute “Bach-lite”, but the performances bear no evidence of body fat. The Concerto Italiano constitutes 10 string
There are now quite a few recordings of various parts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso el Sabio, including discs by some of
There is always much talk that the circumstances of Carlo Gesualdo’s life dictated the intensity of his music: dubbed the “principe assassino”, the high-born, well-connected
Opus 111 has repackaged several items from its Bach holdings to celebrate the composer’s 250th deathday in 2000. One is the brilliant harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï’s
With this Volume 22, Opus 111 continues its ambitious project to record more than 450 Vivaldi manuscripts housed in the National University Library at Turin.
This is Vivaldi’s second opera (at least that we know of), performed for the first time in 1714, the same year that his amazing set
This 2-disc set is a reconstruction of a “let’s pretend” event, described in the booklet as “a service of Solemn Vespers for the Assumption of
The title Istanpitta is a play on the word Istampita (or Estampie, since the earliest examples derive from French sources), a term of indeterminate origin
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