What can anyone add to the praise that has deservedly been heaped on Robert King and the King's Consort's 11 discs of the complete sacred music of Vivaldi? Can one add that every single performance is first class -- wonderfully musical, deeply dedicated, and profoundly spiritual? Can one add that every single performer is first class -- absolutely ...
Claudio Monteverdi's sacred music has been ripe for a top-notch complete traversal such as it is now receiving from the King's Consort and conductor Robert King. As choirmaster of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice for the last 30 years of his life, Monteverdi wrote a lot of sacred music and explored many of the myriad sonic configurations possible in ...
One might have thought Robert King had no worlds left to conquer. After all, he had already recorded all the sacred choral works of Vivaldi along with much of the choral music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Schütz in the '80s and '90s. But when King turned his attention to the sacred music of Monteverdi in the early years of the third millennium, ...
It hasn't been too long a time ago when it was a frustrating business trying to find a good recording of Claudio Monteverdi's signature masterwork Vespro della Beata Vergene, arguably the most ambitious entrance examination ever fulfilled in the history of music. In the old days of LPs, one in search of some measure of transparency in this work ...
Robert King may have planned to end his series of recordings of the sacred music of Vivaldi with his grandest and most popular piece of sacred music, the Gloria, RV 589, but he couldn't have planned to end it with Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus, RV 803, because when the series began, the Nisi Dominus had not yet been found hidden among the Galuppi sacred ...
Claudio Monteverdi's sacred music has been ripe for a top-notch complete traversal such as it is now receiving from the King's Consort and conductor Robert King. As choirmaster of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice for the last 30 years of his life, Monteverdi wrote a lot of sacred music and explored many of the myriad sonic configurations possible in ...
One might have thought Robert King had no worlds left to conquer. After all, he had already recorded all the sacred choral works of Vivaldi along with much of the choral music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Schütz in the '80s and '90s. But when King turned his attention to the sacred music of Monteverdi in the early years of the third millennium, ...
Although it doesn't say so on the cover, this recording of Monteverdi's Vespers is the fifth volume in Robert King and his King's Consort's survey of the complete sacred music of Monteverdi. This bears mentioning because anyone who likes this recording of the Vespers may be interested in hearing the earlier and later volumes in King's collection - ...
It might reasonably be assumed that a collection of new performances of music Benjamin Britten wrote for industrial and educational films in the mid-'30s (e.g., Men Behind the Meters for the British Commercial Gas Association) would be of interest solely to the most rabid collectors of Britteniana. The music, however, is totally charming, and ...
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