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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I've simply been too busy lately to put a lot of work into this site. For two days the site went "down," because I missed re-newing the domain name. That shows you the love I've been pouring into maintaining my love for Biber and other musics.
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Jul 1, 2012
American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott may be well-known in classical circles, but she was new to me.
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Nov 1, 2020
The repertoire on this CD is taken from seven sources that bring us closer to Bach the musician, composer and teacher in his domestic milieu.
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Jan 1, 2014
Andras Schiff has been in the "news" of late, after a series of successful concerts and awards.
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