for the love of the baroque
Nov 1, 2026
The common thread here is harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, who brings into our living rooms three different conceptions of the harpsichord…
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Oct 31, 2026
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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Oct 25, 2026
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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Oct 22, 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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Oct 18, 2026
Felix Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte hold an odd place in the repertoire.
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Oct 17, 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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Oct 12, 2026
Venice has always been a city of contradictions, where elegance and vulgarity, sacred tradition and popular entertainment, melancholy and…
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Oct 6, 2026
This generous recital of Bach's music speaks directly to those of us who are, perhaps, not the most accomplished keyboard players.
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Oct 11, 2024
One of my fond memories five years ago was getting to hear two performances at the Ambronay Festival, featuring the Imaginarium Ensemble (Enrico Onofri) and a performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare by Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset).
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Musica Antiqua Köln record wind concertos by Telemann, (p) DG Archiv This is by no means a new recording, one I picked up in he…
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Sep 4, 2021
Despite my first and strongest love for Baroque repertoire, I took in my college years a liking to minimalism from a academic perspective, the idea of a conserving musical ideas to the point of doing something more profound with those ideas than what they may…
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Jul 14, 2026
North American gambist Caroline Nicolas and her husband Kevin Payne here perform French pieces for the viola da gamba, many accompanied by…
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