Year: 2006

Among the interpreters of Mahler’s music in the late twentieth century, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Daniel Barenboim stand out for their various contributions.

The composer Christoph Bernhard (born Kolberg, Pomerania, 1628, died, Dresden 1692) embodies the problematic nature of German musical culture in the seventeenth century.

This Opus Arte set not only captures a mostly satisfying performance of Monteverdi’s opera based on the last books of Homer’s Odyssey, but features something even rarer: a booklet essay by the musical director (Glen Wilson) of remarkable lucidity.

In spite of the religious warfare that consumed France during the second half of the sixteenth century (which claimed the life of one eminent Catholic composer, Antoine de Bertrand, who was murdered by Protestants)^*, musical life continued unabated.