Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Despite being a relatively knowledgeable music lover and critic, I had never given much thought to the viola da gamba until 1991 when a film
After a couple of years studying in Rome, in 1669 at age 26 Marc-Antoine Charpentier returned to Paris and was immediately recruited by Marie de
Often these major-label compilations brought out for Christmas-season consumption seem thrown together by someone in the marketing department who knows nothing about music, and even
You’d think that Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Midnight Mass, in which the composer ingeniously incorporates 11 carol melodies into the work’s liturgical context, would be far more
While the majority of renowned French composers during the late 17th century spent most of their time at Versailles, Marc Antoine Charpentier spent most of
This is one of the most beautiful SACDs that I have heard to date, and it was recorded way back in 1988. I suppose the
There’s certainly no shortage of excellent recordings of Charpentier’s sacred music, and this new offering by Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Köln adds to
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum H. 146 has enjoyed a number of recordings by respected performers, from Neville Marriner’s heavily vegetated 1991 EMI version (with soloists
Countertenor Gérard Lesne, though less well known than some of his contemporaries such as David Daniels or Andreas Scholl, has built a solid career for
This recording was made during January 1978, at Palaja, Carcassonne, and remains a fine introduction to the polyphonic choral music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The Leçons
