Nov 8, 2026
- Composers
- Philip Glass
I attended the Richmond Symphony's concert today, directed by Valentina Peleggi.
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for the love of the baroque
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Nov 8, 2026
Nov 8, 2026
- Composers
- Haydn
Haydn was forty when he wrote this set of six string quartets, the third set he'd written while at the Eszterháza palace.
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Haydn String Quartets: op. 20, Sun
Nov 7, 2026
- Composers
- KohautVivaldiKleinknechtKrebsHagen
- Label
- Arcana
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 1:13:00
Evangelina Mascardi has impressed me over the past several years, not least with her Bach on the lute.
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Beyond Vivaldi: Lute Concertos Mascardi, Estrovagante
Nov 7, 2026
- Composers
- JSBach
- Label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 37:00
This album of just 37 minutes is a bit confusing and with no booklet offered (via Qobuz) I can only speculate about the production.
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Continuum II Víkingur Ólafsson
Nov 6, 2026
- Composers
- Lassus
- Label
- Linn
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 2:01:00
Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532–1594) was arguably the most versatile composer of the late Renaissance, and the one who most fully embodies the…
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Lassus: The Alchemist, Volume 3 Magnificat & The City Musick
Nov 5, 2026
- Composers
- JSBach
- Label
- Brilliant
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 1:47:00
On the heels of another Bach gamba album, this one presents music both familiar and perhaps unfamiliar for the gamba.
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J.S. Bach: Viola da gamba Sonatas Zipperling & Belder
Nov 3, 2026
- Label
- Big Round Records
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 18:00
- Format
- EP
The “folk collective” Floyds Row recently released “The Carlisle Sessions”: just five tracks and eighteen minutes of music.
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The Carlisle Sessions Floyds Row
Nov 2, 2026
- Composers
- PiazzollaCali
- Label
- Cicada Woods
- Released
- 2026
- Length
- 40:00
This Toronto-based string quartet has released their version of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires or Cuatro estaciones…
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Seasons Cicada Woods
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Mar 2, 2025
- Composers
- Marin Marais
The year is 1723, and on deck are three pieces by Marin Marais, the by now famous French gamba performer.
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The Scale Knitters – Music by Marais
Nov 16, 2025
- Composers
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Released
- 2025
- Length
- 1:19:32
I really liked the debut album in this series from Il Pomo d’Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev.
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Mozart: Symphonies 35/36, Violin Concerto no. 3 Emelyanychev
Nigel on Bach Jan 25, 2008
- Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Fast, for sure, but it made me smile quite a bit.
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Nigel on Bach
Trio Hantaï May 31, 2010
Back in January, 05, I reviewed a concert here in Richmond of the Hantaï brothers.
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