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The Hilliard Ensemble explores Gesualdo’s modernism

Modernists have had a fascination with Carlo Gesualdo (March 8, 1566–September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, for over half a...
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A few thoughts about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I suppose I first became aware of the name of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau around the time that I began to collect my own records. That would have been...
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Magdalena Kožená in three languages (in more ways than one)

Love and Longing is the title of a new Deutsche Grammophon release by mezzo Magdalena Kožená performing with the Berlin Philharmonic under the...
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Renée Fleming’s journey through French sonorities

The title of Renée Fleming’s latest Decca release is Poèmes. This is perfectly acceptable “truth in advertising.” The recording...
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Discovering the Renaissance of Josquin des Prez

The Wikipedia entry for “Renaissance” asserts that the period ran “roughly” from the fourteenth through the seventeenth...
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Other Minds revives MTT’s historic Ruggles project

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) has long been a champion of the composer Carl Ruggles. During the recent American Mavericks series of...
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Kathleen Ferrier: the complete EMI recordings

Next week EMI will release their box set of the complete recordings that British contralto Kathleen Ferrier made on their label (currently...
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Bard SummerScape to focus on Saint-Saëns

Once again the Bard Music Festival (which will be having its 23rd annual season) will fill the final two weekends of Bard SummerScape 2012, the...
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New Arvo Pärt from harmonia mundi

Today is the release date for Creator Spiritus, a new recording from harmonia mundi of the music of Arvo Pärt. The advance material for the CD...
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Decca’s ‘centenary edition” of recordings of Kathleen Ferrier

The English contralto Kathleen Ferrier was born on April 22, 1912, meaning that next month will mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. Tragically...
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