This disc compiles material from several discs by the impressive French-Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, some of them originally featuring music by various composers. If you're looking for a singer who will carom daringly around the corners of a showpiece Handel aria like Renée Fleming or Vivica Genaux, LeBlanc is not that performer; her voice is ...
This disc of chamber music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is one of those releases that are worth acquiring for a single included item -- and now, with download media finally coming to grips with how to transmit classical music, users may wish to do just that. The standout find on this release by the Montreal chamber group Les Boréades is the Trio ...
Journey is a compilation of greatest hits from CDs of Les Boréades de Montréal, an early music ensemble that focuses on music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was probably compiled as a promotional teaser, to tantalize listeners into going out and buying the albums from which these excerpts were extracted, and if that was the intent ...
One of 2005's genuine surprises in recorded opera was CPO's Ariadne, the first recording of a seventeenth century German opera by total unknown Johann Georg Conradi featuring the talents of Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin. That set ended up being nominated for a Grammy, and considerably raised Gauvin's operatic stock in the process. Most of the ...
The title of the series labeled Naturally on Quebec's ATMA classique label refers to the eco-friendly packaging of the discs rather than to any specifcally musical content. (And by the way, is it more eco-friendly to run a computer and charge an iPod for a few hours or to buy and play a CD?) The content seems to have been chosen for light, on-the ...
The anglophone listener may be deceived by both parts of the "Concertos pour flûte" title of this program of little-known Alessandro Scarlatti chamber music: the music is not for flute (or at least is not played by one), and there aren't any concertos. The recorder was and is known in French as a flûte a bec, whereas the transverse flute would ...
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