for the love of the baroque
Nov 10, 2026
This recording, made in December 2010, features over an hour of music by French composers such as Robert de Visée, Lully, Nicolas Hotman…
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Nov 8, 2026
I attended the Richmond Symphony's concert today, directed by Valentina Peleggi.
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Nov 8, 2026
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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Nov 7, 2026
Evangelina Mascardi has impressed me over the past several years, not least with her Bach on the lute.
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Nov 7, 2026
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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Nov 6, 2026
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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Nov 5, 2026
On the heels of another Bach gamba album, this one presents music both familiar and perhaps unfamiliar for the gamba.
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Nov 3, 2026
The “folk collective” Floyds Row recently released “The Carlisle Sessions”: just five tracks and eighteen minutes of music.
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Sep 6, 2026
This album features cantatas for solo voice, sung here by countertenor Gabriel Díaz.
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Oct 12, 2025
This album features a variety of baroque music for flute, here performed by Leonard Schelb.
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Jul 1, 2025
Many of the solo sonatas written for an instrument with continuo, starting some fifteen years into the seventeenth century, were intended for “sopranos,” which might include the violin or the cornetto, as the two primary candidates; recorders may also have…
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May 4, 2024
Johann Sebastian Bach’s collection of six partitas, published as his Opus 1 during his tenure in Leipzig, is a cornerstone of keyboard…
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