Rameau is high French baroque, and his harpsichord works are among my favorite. He also composed several character pieces that come along with bass and treble parts to play, as the English might have said, in consort.
One of the highlights from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music was the concert by Musica Ad Rhenum of music by Couperin: it took his instrumental forms and provided a variety in concert.
It wasn't too long ago that an acquaintance of mine mentioned via Twitter that they had chosen the perfect music to go to sleep by, the sonatas for lute by Silvius Leopold Weiss.
The British ensemble London Baroque broke ranks several years ago with their long affiliation with Harmonia Mundi, and now have most recently recorded for BIS.
Riccardo Minasi performs along with Marco Ceccato, Guilia Nuti, and Luca Pianca (Musica Antiqua Roma) the sonatas for violin and continuo by George Frederick Handel.
Andreas Staier records the WQ43 concerti by CPE Bach with Freiburger Barockorchester, directed by Petra Müelejans.
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 education of Bach's eldest son, W.F. Bach.
I reviewed this recording on September 2, 2003. It's worth revisiting, in light of the fact that CZ has just completed their six-disc set of Bach Concertos.
Amandine Beyer and Edna Stern record 4 sonatas for violin and keyboard by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, H 513, H514, H 545 (sometimes attributed to J.S. Bach), and H 512.
Red Priest performs Pirates of the Baroque ℗ 2008 Red Priest Recordings. The recording includes works arranged by the ensemble, written by: * Jean-Marie Leclair * Giovanni Simonetti * Tomaso Albinoni * François Couperin…
This is not the first time I've gone on record about this recording; I've had it now for a couple of years, having found the combination of Christoph Rousset on harpsichord and Stephano Montanari on violin a curious duo.
You can learn more about this release directly from the Glossa website. Carl Friedrich Abel, born 1723, fits into an interesting cubby of history; his instrument's popularity was on the decline, and yet in his time, he…
There are several Goldberg recordings I have avoided; two of late were those by Richard Egarr and the one by Andreas Staier.
In college you could buy a book with all of Bach's chorales from his cantatas. Today, you can purchase this CD of all of Bach's cantata sinfonias, the instrumental movements that opened a number of his vocal works.
Café Zimmermann completes their cycle of the Bach concertos and orchestral suites on Alpha. On this release they include: * Orchestral Suite in D, BWV 1069 * Concerto pour clavecin in A major, BWV 1055 * Concerto for…
From the Collectio Argentea (Archiv Produktion) in 1981 comes a sampling of a variety of German chamber music.
Mrs. Sadie, back in the 1980s, reviewed this recording (quite critically) in Gramophone,+b+2533414+(579),+C+2534010+(883).).
Pablo Valetti continues with volume 5 (of 6) in a reading of various Bach instrumental works (concerti and overtures), this time looking at: * BWV 1068 * BWV 1056 * BWV 1051 * BWV 1063.
BWV 1001-1006. Now in 2011, we have a number of excellent digital recordings at the ready, many recorded on the so-called baroque violin.
Il Fondamento directed by Paul Dombrecht records a collection of oboe concertos by Tomaso Albinoni from his opus 7 and 9 collections on Fuga Libera.
This release from Roel Dieltiens and his Ensemble Explorations wasn't in my database of reviews. For shame. To be sure, this is volume 2 of a 2-CD set now available at discount in re-issue.
Back in 1998, Concerto Köln recorded 9 concerti by the composer Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco, whom died in 1742.
London Baroque have recorded the opus four collection of trio sonatas by Jean-Marie Leclair on Harmonia Mundi some years ago.
I recently reviewed a really well-done recording by Musica Antiqua Roma that starts with a Corelli sonata, then goes to a number of other Italiante composers, exploring what this seed, published circa 1700 did…
The too-long silent Rare Fruits Council has released a new recording featuring Venetian baroque works entitled Venezia.
The Korean violist Richard Yongjae-O'Neill has recorded a variety of works with some similar style, from composers such as Shostakovich, Bloch, Offenbach, Paganini, Raff, and Brugmuller (among others).
Bach Collegium Japan records BWV 43, 88, 146 on BIS in volume 44 of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. BWV 146 opens the recording, with a "sinfonia" that features organo concertato, which has also appeared as a concerto…
Ars Antiqua Austria records the sonatas for violin and continuo by Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi-Mealli on Arcana (p) 2011.
Ian Bostridge and Europa Galante Record Works by J. S. Bach This recording is an interesting recital of Bach; it seems the singer (a tenor) and the ensemble Europa Galante decided to collaborate on some favorite pieces…
Sonaten aus Dresden by Musica Antiqua, Köln, (p) 2001 Challenge Classics In the new millennium, it seemed that MAK couldn't find the support for all it wanted to do with DG Archiv.
Available now from a WDR Cologne production on Berlin Classics (formerly Challenge?) is some chamber music from Johann Friedrich Meister, from his collection entitled Il giardino del piacere.
The Rare Fruits Council performs works by Locatelli and Jean-Marie Leclair, (p) 2001 Astrée Naive Was Leclair an angel and Locatelli a devil?
Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian baroque composer most famous for his limp, gained after jumping out of a window.
Former Musica Antiqua Köln violinist and concertmeister Florian Deuter has an ensemble he co-leads called Harmonie Universelle.
The ensemble named for Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest, has recorded 23 tracks of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, entitled "Johann, I'm Only Dancing," and it's fun-filled recording of some of Bach's more toe-tapping hits.
The recording was made at the Arsenal at Metz in France. Despite not being performed in a church like St. Mark's in Venice, there is reverb present in the recording, which gives us a sense that we're close to the…
Biondi and Company release recording with 7 concertos; 6 are from Vivaldi's collection op. 4, La Stravaganza, with the addition of Proteo o sia il Mondo al Rovescio. Will there be a volume 2?
Bach's music carries a universality with it; perhaps its because his music is so removed from our own time and sound world that his music so nicely works on a variety of instruments, and across different performance…
London Baroque's recent recordings have been on the BIS label, and among them for sale in MP3 format is Vivaldi's first opus, a set of trio sonatas.
Awhile back, I admired the catalog London Baroque was building with BIS, and I picked up this recording featuring Italian works featuring a collaboration with recorder player Dan Laurin.