Jan 14, 2023
Spanish musicians Moises P. Sanchez, Pablo M. Caminero, and Pablo M. Jones join forces on this album to present Bach’s fifteen inventions…
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Jan 13, 2023
The baroque period, if you’ve been a student of musical history, was all about the basso continuo, the foundation of all music that was…
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Jan 3, 2023
In an interestingly-titled album, recent Sibelius-winner Inmo Yang records a likewise interesting mix of pieces featuring the violin. While the review of non-HIP albums is a rarity on this site, I felt I had to include Mr.
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Dec 23, 2022
Elaine Funaro (Arabasque Recordings, 2011) Every holiday season there’s a hunt on for merging old with new when it comes to Christmas music.
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Dec 2, 2022
In November 1720, Handel published in London his first set of harpsichord pieces entitled Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin.
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Nov 11, 2022
Handel’s set of 12 concerti grossi have been well-represented in the catalog.
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Oct 21, 2022
The piano music by Philip Glass seems to not have waned in popularity; over the past two weeks two new recordings of piano music have come…
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Oct 15, 2022
This album by the winner of the 2021 Brugge competition on his instrument, Teodoro Baù and harpsichordist Andrea Buccarella take on half of Corelli’s fifth opus with the solo going to the viola da gamba. The recording is a direct result of Mr. Baù’s win.
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Oct 10, 2022
Augustin Lusson already has a few albums out to feature his talents on baroque violin; I have a feeling this one is going to catapult his…
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Oct 7, 2022
Leclair’s music has been a favorite of mine for some time; it’s safe to say I am nearly as strong a leclairfan as a biberfan.
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Sep 30, 2022
It wasn’t that long ago that I reviewed another Mozart program by Le Concert de la Loge.
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Sep 30, 2022
Julien Chauvin (violin/director) and his ensemble, Le Concert de la Loge, have two new releases this week.
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Aug 27, 2022
This album takes its title from the antiphon for soprano and orchestra by G. F. Handel, HWV 241.
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Aug 27, 2022
Johann Jakob Walther ’s suites, or scherzi, are recorded here, all twelve, by Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort.
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Aug 12, 2022
I recently came across some recordings by Ensemble Alraune, which was a new name to me.
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Aug 5, 2022
The name John Dowland came to me in the context of a music history course.
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Jul 4, 2022
The premise of this album from the Capricornus Consort in Basel is a simple one: let’s perform music by all the top contenders for the St.
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Jul 3, 2022
Johann Sebastian Bach had made the trio sonata for two instruments, namely violin and harpsichord, a rather novel idea. Trio sonatas by design are for three parts, but composers looked for ways to economize the design of two melody instruments against a bass…
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Jul 3, 2022
Yi-Chang Liang (recorder) performs six sonatas by Francesco Mancini with Ensemble IJ Space.
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May 22, 2022
Céline Frisch records late French harpsichord works in a recital portraying une Journée avec Louis XV. Included are pieces by: Frisch has chosen a modern copy of an instrument originally by Jean-Claude Goujon and updated in 1784 by Joachim Swanen.
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May 7, 2022
I appreciate the encyclopedic approach Mr. Pramsohler takes in his latest release with harpsichordist Philippe Grisvard, both principal…
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May 1, 2022
Released earlier this year in January, Quartetto Bernardini, featuring the HIPP-specialist Alfredo Bernardini, who has made so many…
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Apr 23, 2022
Of course, the fact that the book begins with the key of C and ends with B, on that compositional peak I mentioned earlier, is not…
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Apr 23, 2022
The short of this new recording is that I think it offers some insight into some interesting if not original interpretive ideas about…
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Apr 16, 2022
Lina Tur Bonet is not new to Biber or to virtuosic baroque violin music. Her album covers always speak to some degree of whimsy.
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Mar 24, 2022
Likely the association of Bach with virtuoso Silvius Leopold Weiss led to him leaving us works for lute.
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Mar 23, 2022
I first experienced Bach’s Goldberg Variations by the harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock. From memory, that recording was clean; Pinnock, as ever, was metronome sharp with very clean playing.
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Mar 23, 2022
Alpha has released a new album featuring flute sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the most famous Bach, Johann Sebastian.
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Mar 22, 2022
In his collection of writings and esoteric discussions of music and the instruments used to play them harpsichordist and conductor Skip…
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Feb 21, 2022
Harpsichordist Christophe Rousset’s latest release on Aparté is a 2 CD set from a recently discovered manuscript once belonging to one…
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Feb 21, 2022
I recently auditioned this recording which was released in late September 2020: a collection of Bach’s instrumental works performed by…
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Jan 17, 2022
Eloise Bella Kohn and Daniil Trifonov have released in the past few months their own performances of Bach’s Art of Fugue (BWV 1080) on piano.
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Jan 17, 2022
Bach’s Art of Fuguing as I like to refer to it, speaking of the word fugue as a verb rather than a noun, is considered by many his last work.
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Nov 11, 2021
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Balázs Máté (cello, bass violin), and Leonardo García Alarcón (harpsichord) record early- to late-baroque…
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Nov 2, 2021
Julien Chauvin leads Le Concert de la Loge in an album focused on a popular Mozart program.
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Oct 31, 2021
It isn’t everyday that musicians are enterprising enough to start their own labels. Johannes Pramsohler founded Audax records to support his own Ensemble Diderot’s recordings, in addition to a number of musician friends.
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Oct 31, 2021
Young French chamber ensemble Le Consort has recorded a new album on Alpha of some 68 minutes dedicated to Venetian chamber music by Reali…
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Sep 4, 2021
Bach's offering, of course, was a collection of pieces he prepared after a visit to Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Phillip…
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Sep 4, 2021
Despite my first and strongest love for Baroque repertoire, I took in my college years a liking to minimalism from a academic perspective, the idea of a conserving musical ideas to the point of doing something more profound with those ideas than what they may…
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Aug 8, 2021
According to the liner notes in this new album featuring Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey, we don’t know terribly much about Antonio…
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Aug 8, 2021
While my own mind tends to go to Spain for my image of a male guitar player, this album features the artistry and compositions of João…
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Aug 7, 2021
One might view the act of re-composition as the greatest form of flattery, or, on the other side of the coin, as a lazy attempt at…
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Jul 24, 2021
The Naïve Classics Vivaldi series is now joined with a new album featuring violinist Boris Begelman with Alessandrini’s Concerto Italiano in label's ninth edition for solo violin, Le nuove vie.
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Jul 24, 2021
The saxophone rightly has a number of associations to it; from today’s popular culture we could picture a jazz musician in a dark club, or Kenny G playing holiday favorites.
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Jul 4, 2021
At this point in my preference for taking on new albums of familiar works—in this case the seven toccatas for keyboard by Johann Sebastian…
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Jun 3, 2021
Starting in high school and into college, I was always a fan of the NBC hit series Seinfeld.
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Jun 3, 2021
I've come across a number of renditions of Pärt's popular piece entitled Fratres which opens this disc.
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Apr 9, 2021
Justin Taylor followed his earlier recital idea presented in La Famille Forqueray, by choosing pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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