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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

Nov 1, 2026

Composers
ShawCarpenterBryars
Label
Rubicon
Released
2026
Length
55:00

The common thread here is harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, who brings into our living rooms three different conceptions of the harpsichord…

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Mondrian – 21st Century Harpsichord Concertos Esfahani

Oct 31, 2026

Composers
JSBach
Label
Arcana
Released
2026
Length
1:23:00

Of course, Mr. Baù teases us with these unknown gems for the viola da gamba by Bach. A recent discovery? No.

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J.S. Bach: Partitas for Viola da gamba Teodoro Baù

Oct 25, 2026

Composers
BeethovenSchubert
Label
HDB Sonus
Released
2026
Format
CD

I was a bit surprised to see another Italian conductor taking up Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony so soon after our earlier experience here with…

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Imprinting: Beethoven and Schubert Accademia Bizantina

Oct 22, 2026

Composers
JS Bach
Label
Alpha
Released
2026

The recorder occupies a distinctive place in Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred music, its gentle, breath-driven sound frequently associated…

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J.S. Bach: Komm!

Oct 18, 2026

Composers
Mendelssohn
Label
Erato
Released
2026

Felix Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte hold an odd place in the repertoire.

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Songs without Words Bertrand Chamayou

Oct 17, 2026

Composers
CPE Bach, Telemann, JS Bach, Boismortier
Label
Challenge Classics
Released
2026

Bach wrote the Inventions to teach his students to play cleanly in two parts at the keyboard, and the four Duettos of Clavier-Übung III are…

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Duologues

Random reviews

Mar 16, 2019

Composers
Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann, Trios & Quartets. Epoca Barocca. CPO, (p) 2011; Time: 66:00; Rating: (4.5/5). Telemann was a prolific composer.

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Telemann – Trios and Quartets (and a solo)

Mar 28, 2020

Baroque violinist Lina Tur Bonet releases a new album entitled La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music on Pan Classics (2020) with over 60 minutes of music—and it's good.

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La Bellezza – Lina Tur Bonet and Musica Alchemica

Sep 14, 2025

Composers
Antonio Vivaldi
Label
Naïve
Catalog no
OP 8877
Released
2025

This 54 minute CD features one of Vivaldi’s surviving serenades, a type of dramatic cantata that was written for two voices, called La…

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Vivaldi – La Gloria e Imeneo Abchordis

Feb 4, 2023

Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Aparte has commissioned Il Pomo d’Oro under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev to record the symphonies of Mozart; in this edition the…

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New Mozart Cycle – Il Pomo d’Oro

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