Lyrichord Early Music Series' release of Dido and Aeneas is a powerful reminder of the greatness of Purcell's only opera. The early music group Ama Deus Ensemble conducted by Valentin Radu turns in a performance of wrenching simplicity and musical and dramatic directness. Julianne Baird sings with pearly luminosity as the doomed queen Dido, whose ...
The four chamber works by Austrian Thomas Larcher recorded here show that's he's a composer to watch out for. His compositional voice is strikingly unencumbered by adherence to any orthodoxy, and his work is direct in its emotional and intellectual communication. My Illness Is the Medicine I Need, for soprano, violin, cello, and piano, is ...
This Mozart Requiem mass in D minor (not D, as the back-cover tracklist erroneously reads) appears in a series of early music releases on the Lyrichord label, but it is performed on modern instruments. The Requiem is given a rather Romantic interpretation by the young Romanian-American conductor Valentin Radu and his Ama Deus Ensemble of ...
Carus-Verlag's excellent Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Herr Gott, dich loben wir makes its bow in 2009, the bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth. Even a reasonably casual classical music listener might be surprised to learn just how much Mendelssohn they might have gained without really trying, as his symphonic works, the most popular pieces among ...
Even Mendelssohn's admirers might be confused by the identity of the composer of these sacred choral works. There are hints of Bach's triumphalism in the opening Magnificat and more than hints of Handel's imperialism in the closing Gloria. Careful listening, though, will reveal the composer's true identity in the expressive elegance of the solo ...
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