Repackaging old recordings as some kind of ideal selection for newcomers is reprehensible. Would you serve a plate of leftovers to a party of new visitors to your home? That said, this disc gives the casual buyer a reasonable sampling of some of the new ways in which Baroque music has been performed over the last two decades, with almost all the performers coming from the world of "historical instruments": the use of musical instruments modeled on, or even dating back all the way to the time of, those for which the music ...
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Repackaging old recordings as some kind of ideal selection for newcomers is reprehensible. Would you serve a plate of leftovers to a party of new visitors to your home? That said, this disc gives the casual buyer a reasonable sampling of some of the new ways in which Baroque music has been performed over the last two decades, with almost all the performers coming from the world of "historical instruments": the use of musical instruments modeled on, or even dating back all the way to the time of, those for which the music was written. What the music loses in sweetness and sheen it gains back in vigor and drama. The "Stabat mater dolorosa" movement from the Pergolesi Stabat Mater exposes the listener to two of the really great voices in this field, French soprano Véronique Gens and countertenor (a male alto) Gérard Lesne. The program is nicely balanced between ultra-familiar pieces like Pachelbel's Canon (here presented with its originally accompanying Gigue as a Canon & Gigue in D major) and less...
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