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I was looking forward to liking this: a good Messiah […]
This sterile, bloodless performance, recorded in concert, is difficult to comprehend. Richard Egarr conducts a mincing, precious, charmless account of the score featuring a consistently
Rameau composed Dardanus in 1739 at the height of the
In the past few months at least eight recordings of
Although neither Edmund Rubbra nor Patrick Hadley is a major name in the history of choral music, programming these two 20th century British composers together
In John Eliot Gardiner’s DG War Requiem, recorded in 1992 at the Marienkirche, Lübeck, the boys’ chorus is placed at one end of the building
John Mark Ainsley is a very fine tenor, especially adept and engaging in English song repertoire. His performances here exemplify technical mastery combined with a
Graham Johnson is the expert accompanist, annotator, and major domo of what will be a four-volume series of Fauré’s complete songs, of which this is
Before Broadway and pop record charts, the best songwriters wrote tunes for singers with real–as opposed to electronically enhanced–voices. Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of
Minor Finzi here, and admirers of this fine composer should not expect any revelations on the order of Intimations of Immortality and the Clarinet Concerto.
