Taverner Consort - Trauer-Music: Music to Mourn Prince LeopoldAndrew Parrott is a master of musicological detective work, known for his adventurous and uncompromising scholarship. He is also internationally known for his pioneering historically informed performances and recordings of pre classical repertory. This new release combines the best of both, resulting in the first full reconstruction and recording of the funeral music for J. S. Bach's patron, Prince Leopold of Cthen. Parrott conducts the renowned

and with an in-depth 12

which all use texts from the libretto Demofoonte by Pietro Metastasio

nearly fifteen-minute banger

classical and romantic repertoire

has an immediate appeal

underscoring the works calming

but more because she might be a few tiles short of a full mahjong set

Mary Magdalene and a Pharisee on the one hand

songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

The Taverner singers navigate Gesualdo's highly symbolic polyphonic structures with idiomatic first-rate performances and incisive scholarship

Featuring massive hits such as "Chain of Fools

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