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 24, 2025
This new release featuring Thomas Dunford and Lea Desandre features music by Dowland and Purcell—obviously sung numbers but also a variety…
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Jan 14, 2023
Yaara Tal released this album in August 2021, a collection of fugues played on the piano.
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Sep 9, 2023
This album features just three musicians, with Daniel Deuter appearing as the violin soloist, Heike Johanna Linder on gamba and lirone, and…
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Dec 11, 2006
This release from the Academy of Ancient Music can during a ripe relationship between violinist Manze, harpsichordist Egarr, and saw…
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