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2018-12-11 09:00:00
The best recordings of Handel’s Messiah
[…] surprisingly robust. Highly original are both the continuo realisation (with John Butt at the harpsichord) and the ‘Pifa’ or ‘Pastoral Symphony’ section’s dreamy atmosphere. The vocal ensemble deftly teases out Messiah’s various moods, and they possess an impressive freshness throughout the recording, although it has to be said that the soloists sometimes disappoint. Five facts about the Royal Albert Hall organ 20 Greatest Sopranos of all time William Christie (conductor) Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Andreas Scholl, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg; Les Arts Florissants (1994) Harmonia Mundi HMG 501498.99 For quality of soloists, this disc ranks top dog: Andreas Scholl, Sandrine Piau, Nathan Berg and a young Mark Padmore are exquisite. Padmore’s opening recitative arioso uses silence more eloquently than any other recording I’ve heard, while the limpid beauty of Scholl’s countertenor voice, combined with the subtlety of his interpretation, makes the simplest melodies the most eloquent. […]
2018-03-22 05:06:00
Graupner: Two Overtures, G14 and D5 (CD review)
Also, Cantata for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Barbara Schlick, soprano; Hein Meens, tenor; Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert. CPO 999 592-2.This is the kind of disc that would probably go by unnoticed by most classical record shoppers unless they had heard about it somewhere. Now you've heard about it. Johann Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) was a German Baroque composer with over 1,500 published works to his credit, yet hardly anyone recognizes his name anymore. He worked as Kapellmeister at the Hesse court in Darmstadt for almost fifty years, composing both secular and religious music, and he might have gotten the music director's post in Leipzig that went to J.S Bach instead had Graupner's patron allowed him leave. Graupner was, in fact, one of the leading composers of his day, but his name and works fell into obscurity. According to what I've read, this obscurity is unfair: his heirs fought legal battles […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-12-21 04:43:11
[…] could also be an instrument that plays in the same range (with the player often adding ornamentations), or a combination of both. This built-in flexibility was highlighted in the many arrangements of Christmas tunes by Michael Praetorius featured, most notably the jaunty performance by the entire ensemble—voices and instruments—of his take on Nicolai’s Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. The group took advantage of it in other works, too, leading to some startlingly lovely combinations: Arnold Schlick’s three-part Maria zart was given gentle intimacy by tenor Daniel Hershey, recorder player Steven Lundahl, and lutenist Nathaniel Cox; and the four-part version of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen by Melchior Vulpius arrived in a stunning fashion from sopranos Camila Parias, Anne Azéma, and Deborah Rentz-Moore, along with Lundahl on the tenor recorder, epitomizing the “crystalline purity” of the music described in the printed notes. Instrumental texture was just one part of the story, […]
2016-12-03 01:00:00
[…] Esther. Oratorio Lynda Russell, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Michael George The Sixteen Harry Christophers Regis RRC2025 (2003) [flac, cue, log, scans] Showing cover of Collins Classics 70402 (1996) Flavio Jeffrey Gall, Derek Lee Ragin, Lena Lootens, Bernarda Fink Ensemble 415 René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMX 2901312.13 (2003). Recorded 1989 [flac, cue, log, scans] Giulio Cesare Jennifer Larmore, Barbara Schlick, Bernarda Fink, Marianne Rørholm, Derek Lee Ragin Concerto Köln René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMX 2901385.87 (2003). [flac, cue, log, covers] Tamerlano Nancy Argenta, Jane Findlay, Derek Lee Ragin, Michael Chance, Nigel Robson, René Schirrer English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Erato 2292-45408-2 (1985) [flac, cue, log, scans] Rodelinda Sophie Danemann, Daniel Taylor, Adrian Thompson, Catherine Robbin, Robin Blaze, Christopher Purves Raglan Baroque Players Nicholas Kraemer […]
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