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For years I’ve been referring to this recording as a […]
Up front, I’ll confess that my favorite Fauré Requiem recording is by John Rutter’s Cambridge Singers (Collegium) in Rutter’s own edition of the 1893 version
Dutch soprano Elly Ameling is one of those artists who,
You can only stand back and gasp in admiration at this recorded monument. Yes, Naxos is moving ahead with its own complete edition, and it’s
Anna Russell once joked that lieder were best suited to singers “with no voice, but GREAT artistry!” She had a point, but Elly Ameling was
Bach’s Easter Oratorio continues to suffer comparative neglect, which is puzzling when you consider that it contains a spectacular opening chorus and one or two
István Kertész leads a suitably stern Mozart Requiem, with a grim-toned Vienna State Opera Chorus sounding as if there were no hope at all for
The introduction of digital recording techniques coincided with the end of Edo de Waart’s lengthy tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony and
After his incandescent Verdi Requiem (also recorded for EMI with some of the same forces), Carlo Maria Giulini’s Beethoven Missa solemnis largely disappoints. The passion
Recorded in 1974 with modern instruments but with a fine Baroque sensibility (Jeffrey Tate is the always audible, almost aggressive harpsichordist), Vivaldi’s only (extant) oratorio
