Caldara: Missa Dolorosa & Stabat Mater

"This is repertoire that definitely deserves to be heard and, at Naxos' budget price, is well worth acquiring by lovers of Italian Baroque sacred music and choral-music fans. Each of the choral works is preceded here by an instrumental Sinfonia excerpted from a Caldara oratorio from the same Vienna period. They give the Budapest ensemble Aura Musicale a chance to shine, showing how polished and elegant its playing is. This is some of the most gorgeous string playing the early music movement has produced." - CDNow.com (Steve Holtje)