
There’s no dearth of fine Orfeo recordings on the market: […]
Emmanuel Krivine leads a crisply articulated, rhythmically taut, tonally vibrant performance of Mozart’s unfinished Mass, vividly capturing its varied stylistic features and projecting the large
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
Just in time for Easter, Archiv offers a new recording of J.S. Bach’s under-recorded Easter Oratorio BWV 249 combined with his much-recorded Magnificat BWV 243.
Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ never will have the wide audience appeal of the best-known oratorio-style works, but it’s full of fine music for soloists and
The Best of Lully probably isn’t quite right, but this CD certainly shows the quintessential French Baroque composer at his most affable, dramatic, short-winded, and
The plot of this opera concerns Perseus and his love for Andromeda (who returns his love but feels duty-bound to Phinée as well), Mérope’s own
Sixteenth-century Italian composer Orazio Vecchi not only was a priest concerned with sacred music (he wrote a number of masses and motets and was responsible
Handel’s Theodora remains one of his least known oratorios. A late work, he reputedly valued it highly despite the public’s cool reception on its initial