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...best thing of all is that you can hear each instrument individually. The Olivz swim against the Nirvana-inspired grundge rock current of blur and amplifyer feedback. "Our music has balls, but our sound is clean," says Chambers...
Hogwood said he played excerpts from several well-known Mozart compositions in order to teach the audience how to think about modern deviations in instrument construction, performance technique and social context of musical performance...
There may be more than a touch of arrogance in such rhetoric, whether its source is Bush in 1991 or Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 or Woodrow Wilson in 1917. But there is also nobility and immense political force in the claim that American power is an instrument of universal values as well as national interests. Throughout this century that idea has helped rally other countries when U.S. Presidents have called. It enabled Bush to mobilize a mighty international coalition that cut across the traditional divides of East and West, North and South, and gave meaning to the phrase new world...
With the end of the Soviet idea comes the end of the Soviet Union. There is no reason to mourn the death of a country that killed millions of its own citizens in the collectivization campaign, the purges and the famines that were used as an instrument of government policy...
...premiere 250 years ago. A pragmatist as well as a great composer, Handel penned several alternative sections to accommodate the strengths and limitations of different musical ensembles. This recording assembles, as addenda, all the alternative arias, recitatives and choruses (hence the three volumes). Nicholas McGegan, a major authentic-period- instrument and practiced Handel conductor, leads marvelous singers and players in a splendid performance. Hallelujah...