
This beautifully performed and recorded rendition of Gottfried Homilius’ St. Mark Passion claims to be a world premiere, and we can assume that the only
I have listened to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio from childhood on. Every season, always the same tape–until it wore out. That’s the reason Karl Richter’s (second)
Telemann used to be much maligned; it was believed that he wrote too much. As it turns out, his average was pretty high: most of
Soprano Monika Mauch makes a fine impression in these so-called “German Arias”, joining a handful of singers who’ve both recognized and artfully realized their considerable
When you hear this remarkable work you don’t have to know that Dresden church composer Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785) was a pupil of J.S. Bach
I’ve never been a big fan of the “one-voice-to-a-part” cult of Bach performance, but I have to say that this is really outstanding, the renditions–especially
Receiving its premiere recording here, Sigmund Staden’s Seelewig, composed in 1644, is the earliest extant German opera. It’s basically a morality tale about heroine nymph