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The Virtuoso Handel: Cantatas and Sonatas.

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The Virtuoso Handel: Cantatas and sonatas. Patrice Michaels, soprano; John Mark Rozendaal, Chicago Baroque Ensemble. Cedille Records CDR 90000 057.

If The $ensible Sound gave ratings to discs for their sound quality, this one would get five stars, 10 out of 10, top-of-the-pile. I know I've said this before but it bears repeating: Cedille is making some of the best-sounding recordings in the business right now. Part of that credit must go, as always, to engineer Bill Maylone. If he were here I'd shake his hand for providing me with so many hours of sonic enjoyment. The sound of the Chicago Baroque Ensemble, a small group of six musicians playing on period instruments, plus Patrice Michaels, soprano, is as natural as can probably be achieved in the confines of a home living room. The group is not so close that they spread from speaker to speaker but more centered as they ...

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