for the love of the baroque
Nov 12, 2026
Published in Salzburg in 1715, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr's six partitas for unaccompanied violin, Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera, belong to…
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Nov 11, 2026
When I think about harpsichord versions of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuga, the recordings by Robert Hill, Christian Rieger, and Ton Koopman come…
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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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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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Jun 2, 2007
CD#750 in my collection (I save the big, round numbers for important works, such as Bach's Kunst der Fuge) is this CD: the Emerson Quartet…
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Ensemble Café Zimmermann have recorded concertos by J. S. Bach: BWV 1049, BWV 1053 (alt), BWV 1064, and suite, BWV 1067. In this third installment, they choose to "mix" things up, taking more from the Brandenburg trove (in this case, no.
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Feb 5, 2023
The second and third installments of SLIXS’ album Quer Bach presents some of the cantor’s best hits realized in an affective acappella style.
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