Oct 25, 2024
This is not the first time Johannes Pramsohler and his Ensemble Diderot have devoted a disc to vocal music; however in this album featuring arias for bass, starring Nahuel Di Pierro, the forces of the ensemble have blossomed to a full-sized orchestra…
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Oct 13, 2024
I foresee a time in my own lifetime that we’ll have an AI that can compose in the style of Bach to a degree that many will find delight.
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Oct 12, 2024
The Canadian Trio Fibonacci—whose name I admire for having written three fanfares some years ago based on numerical constructions based on…
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Oct 12, 2024
I had the good fortune to meet Francesco Corti after hearing him play at the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival.
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Oct 11, 2024
For many years my go-to harpsichord rendition of the Bach Toccatas was the edition on Virgin Veritas by Pierre Hantaï.
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Oct 11, 2024
One of my fond memories five years ago was getting to hear two performances at the Ambronay Festival, featuring the Imaginarium Ensemble (Enrico Onofri) and a performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare by Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset).
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Sep 21, 2024
Kinga Ujszászi (violin) and Tom Foster (harpsichord) record violin sonatas from the manuscripts located in the Saxon State and University…
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Sep 8, 2024
The Duo Pleyel record on Linn a Christmas holiday album featuring music by F. Liszt, G.F. Handel, the two Johann Strauss’s and P.
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Sep 8, 2024
I haven’t been that familiar with Lautten Compagney, but one of the magical things that comes about to music streaming is the new awareness…
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Sep 7, 2024
I am looking at two albums with Glass's Sonata for piano. Several recordings exist now of the Glass Etudes, all twenty across two books.
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Sep 7, 2024
In what appears to be a blood-splattered release from this January, Gunar Letzbor and his Ars Antiqua Austria have re-recorded the eight…
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Aug 25, 2024
I endured a deep dive into Schubert’s song cycle known as the Miller’s Daughter or Fair Maid of the Mill in one of my music theory classes…
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Aug 25, 2024
Just recently in my car I chose to listen to an old favorite album of music by Rameau, performed by the Calefax Wind Quintet.
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Aug 24, 2024
My exposure to Mozart’s so-called wind concertos was by way of a DG recording by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Aug 24, 2024
Upon the Swiss label Prospero comes a new release of Bach on piano. The word “rare” is an interesting choice for the title of this album…
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Aug 18, 2024
It’s not that unusual for ensembles to adopt works for their instrumentarium, and in this case, this is what these ladies have done…
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Aug 8, 2024
French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte has recorded a double album featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi with Le Consort.
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Aug 3, 2024
La Serenissima, directed by violinist Adrian Chandler, has been putting out releases featuring Vivaldi’s music for some time.
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Aug 3, 2024
I am certain the only time I’ve made mention of Max Richter before was in connection with his re-write of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. I always enjoy when a new edition comes out, although my original recognition of his work was with the Netflix show, Chef’s…
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Jul 28, 2024
I hope readers will forgive me for turning to an album which is was recorded in 2012 and released in 2016.
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Jul 21, 2024
Auditioned using Qobuz at 96 kHz resolution, without a provided booklet.
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Jul 20, 2024
Composer: Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) Performed by: Andrea ChezziCD Length: 51 minutes - Urania Records Recording Date: June…
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Jul 14, 2024
Du Tianqi must have the patience of Job, recording this debut album in late 2018—with the heavyweight Goldberg Variations—having to wait…
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Jul 14, 2024
This performer’s name – Christopher O’Riley – was new to me. His website reveals he’s a teacher in addition to a performer, bringing…
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Jul 6, 2024
This is not the first collaboration with Il Gardellino and Pashchenko performing Mozart; Alpha 726 paired piano concertos 9 and 17.
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Jul 5, 2024
This new release from Challenge Classics presents 12 trio sonatas for two violins and continuo by Giuseppi Torelli.
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Jun 22, 2024
Bach’s Toccatas, BWV 910-916, are seven pieces which we don’t believe Bach collected as a single corpus, such as the six partitas or the…
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Jun 8, 2024
Once again we’re confronted with another Bach album of “arrangements,” here featuring strings and period winds.
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Jun 2, 2024
In this album by well-known lute player Jakob Lindberg we are treated to a concert of solos for the theorbo by Visée.
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Jun 1, 2024
I’ve been enjoying Evan Goldfine’s Year of Bach project. From him, I learned about Evan Shinners, a Bach specialist.
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Jun 1, 2024
Musicians can’t seem to get enough of arranging Bach’s music. The practice isn’t isolated to non-historical types either; even…
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May 24, 2024
This recording came out in 2009, but I only discovered it recently after enjoying Ensemble Caprice's reading of Bach's Brandeburg Concertos.
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May 18, 2024
From South Tyrol's Gustav-Mahler-Auditorium, Ensemble Diderot, under the thoughtful direction of Johannes Pramsohler with Philippe Grisvard…
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May 11, 2024
In the heart of a pandemic-altered world, "Générations" emerges as a testament to the timeless dialogue between past and present in French violin music.
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May 7, 2024
As a jazz enthusiast with a soft spot for cinematic influences in music, I approached the latest album from the Daniel Bennett Group with a mix of curiosity and high expectations.
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May 5, 2024
In the realm of classical music, where the echo of the past continually reverberates through the present, Jérôme Hantaï's latest…
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May 5, 2024
L'Arpeggiata, under the imaginative direction of Christina Pluhar, continues to be a beacon of innovative early music performance, as vividly showcased in their latest release, Wonder Women.
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May 4, 2024
Johann Sebastian Bach’s collection of six partitas, published as his Opus 1 during his tenure in Leipzig, is a cornerstone of keyboard…
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May 4, 2024
A Tapestry of Baroque Delights: Le Consort's "Philharmonica" This captivating album by Le Consort, a rising French period instrument ensemble, takes us on a journey through the vibrant London music scene at the turn of the 18th century.
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Apr 21, 2024
The booklet accompanying this disc provides the context for this music and how it was enjoyed in 18th century Paris.
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Apr 20, 2024
This CD is an abstract extension of the fantasy and illusion of the Arcadian world, the songs of shepherds, and stories of love, reworked in the fancies of the performer with the violin as singer and storyteller.
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Apr 20, 2024
When the Leipzig cantor Kuhnau died in 1722, the town council went looking for a replacement.
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Apr 20, 2024
The effort behind this album by Jorge Jiménez goes beyond performance, he created first a violin arrangement of a keyboard piece that…
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Apr 10, 2024
Something was off with Qobuz’s booklet for this album, I could not access it. I therefore sourced my information about this recording here.
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Apr 7, 2024
On the heels of Rousset’s recording of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080, we now have a recording by the founder/director of the Bach…
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Apr 6, 2024
An interesting new release from Paul Agnew is the first of what appears to be a new series for Harmonia Mundi entitled J.S. Bach: A Life in Music.
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Mar 31, 2024
The number of recordings of Bach’s violin concertos—even those not left to us as violin concertos—numbers high, although nothing compared…
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Mar 31, 2024
This album, which has already won a number of awards, came to my attention recently through a conversation; I’d not heard of this ensemble.
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