“Christie's experience in performing Charpentier, sacred and secular, is second to none … and his concerts and recordings comfortably lead an ever widening field of interpreters.” (Gramophone)

Gustav Leonhardt was a major force in the movement to perform early music on period instruments. He was a keyboard player and conductor, and also a bit of a wiz in the recording studio. The Gustav Leonhardt Edition contains 21 discs of near perfect baroque music, with a heavy emphasis on harpsichord works. People insist that you can't buy happiness, but in fact you can.