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With its seamless blend of twelve male voices, ranging from countertenor to bass, the San Francisco-based ensemble Chanticleer, celebrates the life of their foudner Louis I. Botto on the 10th anniversary of his death. Five composers create a mass that evolves organically, as if written by one ha...

Chanticleer - Out of This World...

Music from the Royal Court...

A Venetian Coronation 1595...

Story Of Berlioz In Words And Music...

A Musical Banquet...

Andrea Gabrieli: The Madrigal in Venice...

When we speak of "the Gabrielis," we mean uncle Andrea and nephew Giovanni, each of whom worked as principal organist at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice during the 16th century. (Unless, of course, we mean Paul McCreesh's Gabrieli Consort & Players, the composers' leading interpreters.) Giov...

The Venetians have always had a genius for celebration. Take, for example, Ascension Day: what began as a simple gathering of sailors to pray for St. Nicholas's protection became by the 16th century an opulent procession of barges across the Lagoon, a ceremony where the Doge (and Venice) ceremoniall...

Unforgettable Classics: Trumpet...