I had always hoped Reinhard Goebel would have produced a CD of Westhoff violin sonatas.
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Several years ago, John Holloway and his colleagues released an ECM New Series recording of Francesco Maria Veracini's violin sonatas.
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The Assad Brothers perform baroque keyboard works. After reading many positive comments, and after my really warm reception to their…
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Apr 2, 2008
Enrico Onofri and Imaginarium Record Violin Sonatas I love the baroque repertoire, especially the early- and middle-era sonatas for solo…
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I recently picked up (digitally) a new recording of Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus by Jean-Phillipe Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus.
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The Hilliard Ensemble perform a mass and motets by Pierre de la Rue. I honestly don't listen to this recording often; it was recorded in…
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Skip Sempé and Oliver Fortin record Duende - Music by Domenico Scarlatti On their new "Paradizo" label, Sempé and colleagues are publishing…
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Feb 10, 2008
This video depicts what looks like to be a "perfect night" of entertainment.
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Ensemble Kapsberger performs music of Foscarini and others. I first reviewed this CD on April 4, 2002 I've always been a fan of reading…
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Feb 9, 2008
Several years ago, violinist John Holloway began recording for ECM New Series; he started here, with some of the works by Johann Schmelzer…
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When you collect "records" (i.e., music recordings, no matter the medium of the software), you grab recordings by the same ensemble (i.e., the Academy of Ancient Music, the Beatles, etc.).
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I couldn't find the digitized cover for Brandenburg #3 by Musica Antiqua Köln, but that's the core of what I write here tonight. i recently re-read some first-time reactions to the 1986-87 recording by Musica Antiqua Köln of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos on…
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Fast, for sure, but it made me smile quite a bit.
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Last night, I saw countertenor David Daniels in a concert at the University of Richmond with pianist Martin Katz. Together, they performed a program of works including those by Brahms, Peri, Durante, Frescobaldi, Reynaldo Hahn, Handel, Vaughan Williams…
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Right now, I'm listening to Perlman, Zuckerman, and Harrell perform Beethoven's Trios for Strings, an EMI-issue that I purchased from Borders Books and Music in Rochester, NY, likely, in 1993.
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I remember it still: the first time I had really gotten to know the famous Marini Passacaglio for strings. I was in graduate school.
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Dec 2, 2007
Bach's Inventions for keyboard (both the 2-part, and the 3-part, so-called Sinfonias) are rich little pieces of music.
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Oct 31, 2007
Tonight I'm listening to Vladmir play The Art of Fugue by Bach, and it's quite nice.
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This past week I travelled to the University of Richmond to hear the Shanghai Quartet perform works by Mozart, Ligeti, and Dvorak. The Mozart work was late (1790-1), and was one that I did not have regular familiarity.
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Aug 12, 2007
There are certain brands that you learn to trust; a favorite beverage, perfume, or perhaps dishwashing detergent. Right?
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Jul 7, 2007
Fabio Biondi and company recently released a new CD on Virgin Classics based on more "concerti con titoli" although many are not concertos…
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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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Some years ago I acquired an interesting-looking CD with golden piles on it... of Bach's "sonatas" by Le Concert Français, namely, Mr.
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The Hilliard Ensemble record the Bach Motets BWV 225-230 on ECM New Series.
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Jun 7, 2007
Il Giardino Armonico and Christophe Coin record Vivaldi Cello Concertos, (p) 2007 naïve It was in Il Proteo that IGA and Coin joined forces…
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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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May 29, 2007
Ensemble La Fenice records Un concert pour Marazin with Philippe Jaroussky. I once saw this CD at Tower Records.
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May 15, 2007
Anton Steck and Christian Rieger perform violin sonatas by Johann Pisendel.
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May 10, 2007
You know when a piece of music is good. People record it in record numbers.
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May 6, 2007
The Jacques Loussier Trio performs works by Handel on Telarc Jazz, (p) 2002.
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Biber: Violin Sonatas performed by Anton Steck et al., on CPO. Yes, I am a Fan of Biber.
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I recently attended a concert with the Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Richard Egarr, harpsichord. They appeared along their U.S. tour in Portsmouth, VA, playing a concert of "favorites": Handel, Telemann, and Bach.
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Mar 26, 2007
This music has been released and re-released a number of times. I first heard it on LP releases belonging to the Sibley Music Library…
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Mar 26, 2007
I recently acquired a recording from Musica Antiqua, Köln of Dowland's Seven Teares on the Challenge Classics label.
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"Old Cantatas?" I read this post and got confused about exactly what work he was discussing...
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Today, currently, it's 84 degrees in Richmond, VA. My OS X weather widgets always display the temperature, alongside the read-out for…
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Feb 8, 2007
Sonnerie and Monica Huggett perform Bach's Violin Concerti. I spied this release on the iTunes Music Store, but ordered the CD.
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Does it get much better than Johann Sebastian's concerto, BWV 1052? Originally, a harpsichord concerto in the wonderful key of D-minor, it…
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Feb 5, 2007
Gidon Kremer records Bach's Sei Soli for violin, ECM New Series. I first reviewed this set in January, 2006.
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Jan 20, 2007
This CD has been with me for some time, having purchased it likely in Rochester, NY during my college days, and becoming an early…
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Jan 20, 2007
The Rare Fruits Council performs Biber: sonatas equally at home in the chamber as the chapel tam aris quam aulis servientes on Astrée…
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Jan 20, 2007
Celebratory music by Biber and his contemporaries: Sonata pro tabula, Musica Antiqua Köln.
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Jan 15, 2007
Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir perform Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 on Erato, (p) 1996.
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Jan 15, 2007
Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante: Geminiani op. 3 Concerti Grossi, (p) 1997 Opus 111.
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Jan 10, 2007
Pierre Hantaï, Scarlatti Sonatas, "2". (p) 2005 Mirare I recently came across the 2nd of the 3 volumes Hantaï has released.
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Jan 8, 2007
"Nouvelle Suites" recorded by Calefax Reed Quintet, (p)2006 MDG. I was recently impressed searching through the "R"s at Virgin Megastore on…
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Dec 30, 2006
Anno 1630 Lorenzo Ghielmi, Enrico Onofri, and Margret Köll peform early Italian baroque works, Anno 1630 (p) 2003 Winter and Winter.
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Dec 30, 2006
It should be no secret that my favorite work by Bach is his ultimate composition, Die Kunst der Fuge, written-out contrapuntal fantasies in…
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