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Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection...

Viva Villazón (incl. bonus DVD)...

Cavalli - Arias and Duets from Didone · Egisto · Ormindo · Giasone · Calisto...

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Greatest Hits...

Baroque opera in France was very different from the Italian "opera seria" form that prevailed elsewhere in Europe at the same time. While the Italian tradition preferred a succession of detachable arias that provided a showcase for star singers, French opera consisted of an equal measure of song ...

Perhaps I should start by admitting a bias: Many years ago, lying on Boston's grassy Esplanade by the Charles River on warm summer nights, I learned what a symphony orchestra should sound like, with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra. Those concerts were free; these seven compact di...

Handel's oratorios vary greatly in their presentation. In many ways, Esther is a rarity;it is by far the most intimate, not surprisingly as it was composed for the Duke of Chandos. The Duke's Palladian palace near the village ofEdgware had not been completed in time for the first performance so this...

There are no more proficient or imaginative practitioners of early music than the members of the Baltimore Consort. Their programs are invariably intelligent and involving, and the performances--well, you just have to hear them. Faultless musicianship and a real sense of style characterize every i...

Handel: Le Cantate per il Cardinal Ottoboni...

Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo ca...