Category Archive: Review

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29 Jul

Venezia – Rare Fruits Council

Venezia – Rare Fruits Council

The too-long silent Rare Fruits Council has released a new recording featuring Venetian baroque works entitled Venezia. Of course, I need to point out that the …

 
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22 Jul

Lachrymae

Lachrymae

The Korean violist Richard Yongjae-O’Neill has recorded a variety of works with some similar style, from composers such as Shostakovich, Bloch, Offenbach, Paganini, Raff, and …

 
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15 Jul

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op.10 1-3

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op.10 1-3

Pianist Paul Lewis has recorded the entire piano sonatas by Beethoven on Harmonia Mundi, the 8th CD in the complete 10-CD set features op. 10 …

 
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15 Jul

Cantatas, volume 44

Cantatas, volume 44

Bach Collegium Japan records BWV 43, 88, 146 on BIS in volume 44 of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas. BWV 146 opens the recording, with a “sinfonia” …

 
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18 Jun

Pandolfi opera quarta

Pandolfi opera quarta

Ars Antiqua Austria records the sonatas for violin and continuo by Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi-Mealli on Arcana (p) 2011. The violinist Gunar Letzbor leads on violin against …

 
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10 Jun

Cantatas & Arias – Bostridge

Cantatas & Arias – Bostridge

Ian Bostridge and Europa Galante Record Works by J. S. Bach This recording is an interesting recital of Bach; it seems the singer (a tenor) and …

 
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08 Jun

John Picks a Favorite Brandenburg 6

John Picks a Favorite Brandenburg 6

This week I look at several recordings of Bach’s likely most under-rated Brandenburg, BWV 1051 in B-flat. The first movement has always bothered me, with …

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04 Jun

Corelli’s Legacy

Corelli’s Legacy

For this review, I decided to go multimedia, and bring back the long-lost art of the biberfan podcast. Download my 20 minute review of Musica …

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03 Jun

Dresden Sonatas

Dresden Sonatas

Sonaten aus Dresden by Musica Antiqua, Köln, (p) 2001 Challenge Classics In the new millennium, it seemed that MAK couldn’t find the support for all it …

 
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01 Jun

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons

(Nigel) Kennedy’s career, it might be argued, was really launched mainstream with the release of this version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons around 1990. I had …

 
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30 May

Full Speed

Full Speed

This weekend via Netflix I watched A toute vitesse, a French movie with English subtitles released in 1998. It felt low-budget and was of questionable …

 
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29 May

Il Giardino del piacere: Letzte Aufnahme

Il Giardino del piacere: Letzte Aufnahme

Available now from a WDR Cologne production on Berlin Classics (formerly Challenge?) is some chamber music from Johann Friedrich Meister, from his collection entitled Il …

 
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22 May

Jarrett: La Scala

Jarrett: La Scala

This album is (p) 1997 ECM. This review was last published in 2003. I remember seeing many copies of this CD for sale when it came …

 
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22 May

L’ange et le diable

L’ange et le diable

The Rare Fruits Council performs works by Locatelli and Jean-Marie Leclair, (p) 2001 Astrée Naive Was Leclair an angel and Locatelli a devil? All is settled …

 
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15 May

Francesco Maria Veracini Overtures

Francesco Maria Veracini Overtures

Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian baroque composer most famous for his limp, gained after jumping out of a window. …

 
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15 May

The Tourist

The Tourist

This came out around December of last year, I guess, and while on the surface I thought it would be good (a spy movie with …

 
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10 May

Telemann-Fasch

Telemann-Fasch

Former Musica Antiqua Köln violinist and concertmeister Florian Deuter has an ensemble he co-leads called Harmonie Universelle. Among their recordings for strings with continuo is …

 
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10 May

Red Priest plays Masterworks by J.S. Bach

Red Priest plays Masterworks by J.S. Bach

The ensemble named for Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest, has recorded 23 tracks of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, entitled “Johann, I’m Only Dancing,” and it’s …

 
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