Clavecin XX • Justin Taylor
Early music specialists — as a concept — are people who focus on performing music from an earlier period of history. That may be all they do.
20th century
Cello Octet Amsterdam – Music by Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt, a living composer, has attracted fans of early music because of his stylistic affinity for earlier forms, harmonies, and partly because of the religious aspect of his music.
Electric Counterpoint • Redžepagić
One of the central ideas explored in Steve Reich’s music has been to ask a performer to play with themselves, using tape.
Solitude • Reginald Mobley
This album is a type of crossover production, one that stylistically was cohesive enough to work, combining voice, lute or guitar, and either bass or gamba.
Vision String Quartet • Webern • Dvorak
On Sunday, July 6, 2025, I attended a concert by the Vision String Quartet at London’s Wigmore Hall. The program included two pieces plus an encore: The concert was special for me on several fronts: first, the location.
Bach and Webern
The Richter Ensemble has released a pairing of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuga BWV 1080 with the published string quartet music of Anton von Webern. I felt fortunate to hear Mr.
Pärt/Bach: Fratres
I've come across a number of renditions of Pärt's popular piece entitled Fratres which opens this disc. The piece typically is considered a violin piece; Pärt himself however has arranged it a number of times.
Piazzolla and Monteverdi. What?!
In [a recent review]Misterio — Baroque Review featuring the music of Astor Piazzolla, known composer of nuevo tango music, I had some reservation of the music being performed on baroque instruments.
Misterio (Biber and Piazzolla)
Music, and art in general, should challenge us: our notions, our perception of quality, and over time, hopefully our tastes. This album is challenging for me.
Brandenburg Concertos (with a little Shostakovich)
Ensemble Caprice performs Bach's Brandenburg Concerti under the direction of Matthias Maute on the Analekta label. Did I need another collection of Brandenburg Concertos? Probably not.