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There is something to the St. Gallen Bach Cantata project’s recordings that speaks with an earnestness and directness that other recordings of these works do
There are several very fine period-performance recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the catalog, including the two reference versions listed above, and this one, from
When it comes to the big Baroque choral works you can count on Ton Koopman to deliver an extraordinarily fine show–indeed, his 1983 live recording
This 1997 recording of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor has been available for a long time, and given the competition before and after its
Although Ton Koopman’s fine Bach cantata series, begun in the mid-1990s, was abandoned by Warner Classics/Erato in 2001, the conductor managed to resume the 22-volume
In evaluating a Bach cantata recording, there are so many variables to consider–programming choices; quality and type of soloists; tempos and balances among soloists, orchestra,
You have to wonder just how much attention the young Mozart was paying as he performed Michael Haydn’s Requiem mass for Archbishop Schrattenbach in the
One of Telemann’s later works, this Passion oratorio was composed to a text by Karl Wilhelm Ramler. How it came to be set by both
La Resurrezione, dating from 1708 while Handel was in Italy, was a rarity until relatively recently. Seemingly on the heels of one-another came four recorded
Telemann’s St. Matthew Passion of 1746 (one of many settings he produced) is quite different from the more famous work by Bach. Telemann had discovered
