It was sometime in the mid-90s that I sat in music history class, music history 2, in fact, in which we cover the baroque era, when I was…
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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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The FBO has a smaller chamber ensemble that's been called, on recordings, "The FBO Consort," and I recently purchased their recording of…
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Dec 9, 2010
The old guard in Köln recorded a number of years ago a large collection by the prolific German composer, Telemann.
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This will be a short review. Much has been written about Ms. Mullova's approach in this recording.
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While visiting FNAC in France, I picked up this re-issue of a 1992 recording of Vivaldi's Manchester Sonatas for solo violin and continuo.
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Last night, I attended a concert with the Venice Baroque Orchestra and soloist Robert McDuffie on violin. They performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons along with Philip Glass' second violin concerto, The American Seasons.
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Concerto Italiano perform Vivaldi overtures, or string concertos. (p) 2004 Opus 111.
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Nov 13, 2010
Quatuor Caliente performs tangos by Astor Piazzolla in Libertango. I do listen to music, aside from the Baroque.
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Nov 13, 2010
This is an interesting program, for it spans different stylistic periods.
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There are a certain collection of CDs that I buy, seemingly without thought, and these include those by Europa Galante, under the direction…
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Simon Standage and Nicholas Parle record sonatas by Jean-Marie Leclair on Chandos Chaconne, (p) 2006.
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Musica Antiqua, Köln records Telemann Flute Quartets, (p) 2005 DG Archiv.
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Musica Antiqua Köln record wind concertos by Telemann, (p) DG Archiv This is by no means a new recording, one I picked up in he…
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Schmelzer, centered in Austria, published in 1664 six solo sonatas for violin—the first non-Italian to do so.
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Nov 13, 2010
Born in 1697, Leclair was a successful French composer that carried a lighter, more-galante feel to his music than his contemporaries, such…
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The Italian Farina was born around the turn of the century in Mantua and died in 1640, spending his career in Italy and Dresden.
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Nov 13, 2010
Biber published a set of violin sonatas (with continuo) in 1681, and remain widely unknown, and neglected.
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The six trios for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach are well-loved pieces composed (as is believed) for study of the trio sonata form with the…
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Imagine being invited over for an evening, and your host, a wealthy man, whom you ought to respect due to his high social standing, and the…
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Back in 1994, DHM published a solo reading of Bach by harpsichordist Andreas Staier on a Keith Hill instrument.
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I've been auditioning this recording in my car, and today I listened to the finale to Bach's double violin concerto multiple times (BWV 1043). Pablo Valetti leads the Cafe Zimmermann in their examination of a variety of Bach's orchestral works.
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Bach's Kunst der Fuge is a special work in many respects. For one, it is treated as Bach's final opus, a collection of fugues built around…
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I wrote back in May about getting a new Buxtehude recording from Linn at high resolution.
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Marc Hantaï performs works by Bach on the flute with brothers Pierre Hantaï and Jérôme Hantaï, with Ageet Zweistra.
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Bruno Cocset records the six cello suites by Bach (BWV 1007-1011) on Alpha. I've been on a kick lately buying up the cello CDs by cellist Bruno Cocset. I've seen him perform live once, a seemingly young guy with energy. His recoring isn't particularly recent.
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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden record Jasmine for ECM. I purchased my copy from HD Tracks, a website that specializes in high-definition…
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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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It has been several months since French pianist David Fray has come out with a disc featuring four concerti by Bach for single keyboard…
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When I saw this advertised in the iTunes store weeks ago, I buried my head, shook it from side to side, and thought: "Bach? Accordion?
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Jul 16, 2010
Back in 2006, DG Archiv shamefully published an album simply titled "Vivaldi: Concerti" by the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea…
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Several years ago I picked up a DVD of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performing Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and if you search on…
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I recently borrowed a DVD entitled "Keith Jarrett: Art of Improvisation." It was from 2005, and an overview of the pianist's own musical history.
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Jul 6, 2010
La Follia is the titular name for the 2010 "Vivaldi Power" CD released by Imaginarium (Enrico Onofri, Alessandro Tampieri, Alessandro…
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Having recently signed up for a NetFlix account, I found within their catalog a film entitled Philip Glass, which is a documentary about…
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Romanesca (Nigel North, Andrew Manze, John Toll) perform works by Pandolfi, Cima, Castello, and others… (p) 1998 Harmonia Mundi Having wanted to hear some sonats this evening by Fontana, and noting that my computer had deleted this CD from my library, I…
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La Fenice, directed by Jean Tubery, perform works by various composers from the library of J.S.
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Albinoni's chamber music is performed on Hyperion by the Locatelli Trio, with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch.
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The Brazilian Guitar Quartet plays the orchestral suites of Johann Sebastian Bach on Delos, led by Paul Galbraith.
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Anton Steck records violin sonatas by Biber (and Muffat) with Hille Perl, Lee Santana, and Christian Rieger, (p) 2005 cpo. Two "students" of Goebel match with friends for an exciting CD of Biber's lesser-known violin sonatas.
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Heinz Holliger and colleagues record Trio Sonatas by Jan Dismas Zelenka for ECM New Series, (p) 1999. I remember in my early days of looking for baroque CDs seeing the Archiv release with Holliger of these Zelenka works; some 20+ years later, he records them…
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Paul McCreesh records the music of Biber et al., Media vita in morte Sumus, a musical tribute to Biber, (p) 2004 DG Archiv Produktion.
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Georg Philip Telemann was the composer of note from Germany in the mid-18th century. Better known in German circles than Bach as a composer, and a rather prolific one, too, he spent time in Hamburg, Leipzig, among other cities outshining in public view other…
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May 31, 2010
Vivaldi and German sonatas? What gives? Vivaldi, recall, was a popular man in Baroque times.
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May 31, 2010
Paul O'Dette records the music of Hans Neusidler on Harmonia Mundi. I bought this recording more for the performer than the composer, a…
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May 31, 2010
Since discovering the recording of HIF Biber's Rosenkranz or "Mystery" Sonatas by Patrick Bismuth, I've been after more by the French…
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Vivaldi: Arias, cantatas sung by Philippe Jaroussky. (p) 2005 by Virgin Classics/EMI, performing RV 670, 677, 728, 671, 47, 674, 778, 676.
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Back in January, 05, I reviewed a concert here in Richmond of the Hantaï brothers.
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