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Well, we’re safe in the knowledge that Maestro Currentzis has now run out of Mozart-Da Ponte operas. His note-by-note, string-by-string examination of each score has
Priest, diplomat, (most probably) spy, and composer Agostino Steffani travelled all over Europe during his lifetime (1653-1728), and this opera embraces a panoply of styles.
I never thought I’d say such a thing, but the world did not need another recording of Giulio Cesare. Including DVDs, there are more than
Handel’s Alessandro is practically a comic opera despite having as its hero the not-particularly-amusing Alexander the Great. Rather than focusing on his warrior image, the
By now Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin has appeared on a couple of dozen recordings and she always impresses. Aside from some Mozart, Britten, Barber, and
Successful Purcell singing is mostly about style. Yes, you need solid, highly refined technique–and a beautiful voice doesn’t hurt either; but Purcell is not Handel.
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) was a Neapolitan composer who penned more than 50 operas. He was as well known for being the voice teacher of one
If you fight it, you lose; if you just sit back and listen for six minutes short of three hours, you’ll experience the aural equivalent
Handel wrote his solo voice cantatas knowing that he had the most accomplished singers at his disposal, real virtuosos for whom no embellishment or high-speed
You might accurately describe this program as a compilation of “great hits of Christian church music”, including as it does Franck’s Panis angelicus, Finzi’s God
