This collection of sacred music from different eras is merely a repackaging of some aging items from the catalog of the French label Naïve, which acquired the Opus 111 label some years ago; one of the discs in the set bears that imprint. These aren't necessarily the absolute top-of-the-line recordings from Naïve, but they're enough to provide a decent introduction to what this label has been doing. The work starts with fashion-forward graphic design, included in full in these releases. It proceeds to sensuous singing ...
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This collection of sacred music from different eras is merely a repackaging of some aging items from the catalog of the French label Naïve, which acquired the Opus 111 label some years ago; one of the discs in the set bears that imprint. These aren't necessarily the absolute top-of-the-line recordings from Naïve, but they're enough to provide a decent introduction to what this label has been doing. The work starts with fashion-forward graphic design, included in full in these releases. It proceeds to sensuous singing married to vigorous historical-instrument performances from French and on occasion Italian ensembles. The word "vigorous" is not enough to describe one of the performances here, the rendering of Vivaldi's Gloria for chorus and orchestra in D major, RV 589, the famous "Vivaldi's Gloria." Sample the opening track to get an idea of what you're in for. The leader of the Bach cantata disc is another star of the current historical-instrument scene: conductor, gambist, and cellist Christophe...
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