Renée Fleming has succeeded in bringing Handel's operatic arias to the likes of the Late Show with David Letterman, and that's all to the good. For anyone whose appetite has been whetted by her Handel disc, Sarah Connolly's Heroes and Heroines: Handel would make an ideal follow-up purchase, one that gets a a little deeper into the music than does ...
No, these 2006 recordings featuring mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly with Simon Wright conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are not the finest recordings of Elgar's "Sea Pictures" and "The Music Makers" ever made. Those honors go to Janet Baker and John Barbirolli's incredibly moving 1965 recording of "Sea Pictures" and Baker and ...
Admirers of Harry Christophers and his exemplary choral ensemble The Sixteen will no doubt have the highest expectations for this 2008 Coro release of George Frederick Handel's Messiah, especially because the group is almost ideal in size, sonority, and technical mastery to render this work in the best period performance style. Even the most ...
It is right to adjudge Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe an expert choral conductor, and he is most highly regarded for his impeccable readings of Baroque and Renaissance composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Palestrina, and Rameau. Like his colleague Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herreweghe doesn't want to be pinned to down to Alte Musik ...
Conductor Daniel Reuss' splendid new recording of Handel's Solomon expands the extraordinarily broad range of music, including works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Ligeti, Stefan Wolpe, and the Bang on a Can composers, in which he has shown his mastery. His 2006 recording of Martin's Le vin herbé was one of the highlights of the year. Handel ...
Harmonia Mundi's two-disc set called The Essential Bach does indeed provide a clear view of the essential Bach in a compact package even if it cannot hope to represent the fullness of the composer's output. Starting with a suitably sparkling performance of the opening movement of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin ...
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