The vengeful gods of ancient Greece devised devilishly clever punishments. The hunter Actaeon found that out when he glimpsed Artemis bathing in a pool. The goddess, her chastity offended, transformed ...

Thanks to the efforts of great musicians like William Christie, the supremely elegant and deeply felt works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier have become a regular feature of the operatic scene. Christie ...

Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication signale sa dernière publication en ligne : Marc-Antoine Charpentier, musicien du baroque. La commémoration du tricentenaire de la mort de Marc-Antoine ...

From a new recording by Musica Antiqua Cologne and conductor Reinhard Goebel, the last two movements — Offertory and Sanctus — from the "Mass for Woodwinds and Strings," by 17th century French ...