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| 01/04/2007
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing all the 5-star recordings reviewed in each edition of the magazine.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 9 new 5 Star releases from only 110 Euros. |
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| 13/04/2007
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| Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) is the most important German composer between Schütz and J. S. Bach and the best representative of the German-Danish musical culture of the Baltic Sea, which was at its peak at the time. His output doesn’t bear the stamp of a genius, thanks to which the great composers took the style of their time to its highest level of perfection, but that of a musical culture that far exceeded the limits of mere craftsmanship. |
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| 16/05/2007
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3 to 27 July.
At the first Via Stellae Festival last year, the organizers expressed their determination to make this event one of the highlights of Spain’s summer music festivals. The second year not only confirms that intention, but surpasses all expectations. |
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| 18/05/2007
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| The sacred music of Giovanni Legrenzi has not faired very well on recordings. There was an excellent disc of his motets and string music by the American mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane and the ensemble El Mundo on the Koch label, but for the most part Legrenzi’s string music still dominates. |
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| 21/05/2007
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July 19 to 29.
The tenth Gijón Early Music Festival and Courses proceeds along the path traced last year with the revival of Francesca Caccini’s opera, La liberazione de Ruggiero dall isola d’Alcina, this time presenting the Cornacchioli opera La Diana schernita. |
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| 22/05/2007
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| Ars Nova has been one of the most interesting choral groups around for many years, working in the field of both early and contemporary music. Paul Hillier, who is an obvious collaborator for a group with such an approach, has been the choir’s conductor since 2002. |
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| 23/05/2007
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| The pretext for this collection is the 500th anniversary of the death of the Catholic Isabel- and an excellent pretext it is, for it is time this repertoire was revisited after the wealth of discs containing Spanish music from this period following the celebration of the 'Discoveries'. |
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| 24/05/2007
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28 September to 7 October.
Soli Deo Gloria, the newest festival on the Lower Saxony early music scene, has adopted as its motto the characteristic phrase (“To God alone be praise”) with which Johann Sebastian Bach signed all his manuscripts. Since 2006, the Festival has presented an annual celebration of works by Bach and his contemporaries in and around Brunswick. |
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| 25/05/2007
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| A Jesuit-educated medical doctor active in late 17th-century Prague, Jan Ignác Frantisek Vojta is yet another forgotten Czech baroque composer well worth hearing. Of his 27 documented works only the seven on this CD survive. |
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