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In the years after Handel’s death in 1759, Messiah was seen as the epitome of the oratorio genre. The monumental Westminster Abbey Handel commemoration in 1784...

I bought Duets with Spanish Guitar on cassette in the late 1970s, and even then it was almost two decades old. (This explains, at least in...


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Every so often a new recording comes along that is so exceptional it deserves immediate induction into the Classical Hall of Fame. This is such a...

Since its first review ( Fanfare 29:4), this recording has remained a touchstone of chant singing, even though the monks who were once at the center...