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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This release is up there with other output from the Standards Trio, with plenty to enjoy. There's a consistency with Jarrett, at least when it comes to the playing of standards.
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Nov 17, 2013
Corelli, it seems, has been considered a "gold standard" among composers, at least historically speaking.
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Bruno Cocset and colleagues Bertrand Cuiller and Richard Myron record works by Bach: BWV 1027-1029, 659, 649, 645.
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Jul 2, 2007
A colleague recently lent me her copy of Beethoven's "Fifth" and "Seventh" symphonies, performed on DG by the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra…
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