Category Archive: Review

A review of a music recording.

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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08 May

Monteverdi Vespers

Monteverdi Vespers

Christina Pluhar has recorded the Vespro della Beata Vergine of Claudio Monteverdi for Virgin Classics with her ensemble, l’Apreggiata (p) 2011. The recording was made …

 
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07 May

Water Music

Water Music

Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert led by Simon Standage recorded Handel’s suites known as the Water Music in 1983, with David Reichenberg on oboe. …

 
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06 May

Power and Energy: La Stravaganza edition Walsh

Power and Energy: La Stravaganza edition Walsh

Biondi and Company release recording with 7 concertos; 6 are from Vivaldi’s collection op. 4, La Stravaganza, with the addition of Proteo o sia il …

 
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04 May

Bach’s Six Suites

Bach’s Six Suites

Bach’s music carries a universality with it; perhaps its because his music is so removed from our own time and sound world that his music …

 
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24 Apr

Opera Prima

Opera Prima

London Baroque’s recent recordings have been on the BIS label, and among them for sale in MP3 format is Vivaldi’s first opus, a set of …

 
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15 Apr

London Baroque – Stravaganza Napoletane

London Baroque – Stravaganza Napoletane

Awhile back, I admired the catalog London Baroque was building with BIS, and I picked up this recording featuring Italian works featuring a collaboration with …

 
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14 Apr

The Assads in Richmond

The Assads in Richmond

Recently at the University of Richmond I heard the Assad Brothers Sergio and Odair play a program they called De Vola As Raizes or “Back …

 
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06 Apr

Pieter Wispelwey on Bach

Pieter Wispelwey on Bach

I like the cello playing of Pieter Wispelwey. His Bach sonatas are still among my favorites, and this recording features friends Richard Egarr and Daniel …

 
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27 Mar

The Complete Organ Works of J. S. Bach

The Complete Organ Works of J. S. Bach

It wasn’t too long ago that a box from Amazon arrived that contained the complete organ works of Bach, performed several years ago by Ton …

 
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