Handel: Saul/McCreesh

This beautiful, moving oratorio has been lucky on discs. Currently available are John Eliot Gardiner’s superb account on Philips and a performance on Naxos led

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Sir John on Chandos

Vaughan Williams’ “Falstaff” opera probably will never become a repertory staple owing to its relentlessly undramatic character. It has all of the local color that

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Nelson Mass

The Lord Nelson Mass is one of the great masterpieces of the classical choral repertoire. It’s literally amazing how threatening Haydn manages to make such

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