When Music Weeps

During a relatively long career in music, I’ve noticed that most people–listeners and performers–claim to prefer “happy” music to what they consider “sad” or “melancholy”.

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Hasse: Cleofide

This release presents about 78 of the original 231 minutes contained on the 4-CD set that appeared on the Capriccio label in 1988. The original

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