There are people who buy everything Yo-Yo Ma releases, and that's a good thing: his incessant musical curiosity and his ability to carry his audience with him constitute a true bright spot in today's classical music scene. Fans of the two Simply Baroque discs Ma recorded with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra will find much to like ...
The CD covers for Naïve's Vivaldi concerto series are pure Parisian eye candy, with impossibly beautiful models wearing modern clothing (if any) but posed in quasi-mythological images evocative of the themes of Baroque art. The good news is that, once snagged by these covers, the listener's attention will be rewarded with a superb set of ...
The 22nd and final volume in Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir's series of recordings of Bach's cantatas includes two of his final Lutheran cantatas, all four of his short Catholic masses based on movements taken from earlier cantatas, and an early secular version of one of the sacred cantatas plus arrangements of two ...
This disc is a sampler of Vivaldi discs released by France's Naïve label, and it's highly recommended to listeners who haven't yet given these recordings a try. The group of performers is pan-European, with French singers and Italian instrumentalists especially strongly represented, but a compilation like this brings home how well this label has ...
The centerpiece of this collection of chamber and solo keyboard works by François Couperin is La sultane (or sultanne), one of a group of early chamber works Couperin wrote under the influence of the Italian Arcangelo Corelli. This 12-minute quartet sonata is a fascinating Frenchification of the then-novel Italian trio sonata, with Couperin ...
This box collects four of the most prominent examples of a new trend in the performance of Vivaldi's music, and it's a fine bargain; it's rare to get discount prices on something that is still, for many listeners, something genuinely new and different. The music has been released on the French label Naïve, but the musicians are Italian. If their ...
Georg Philipp Telemann could write a trio sonata in the time that it would take the average person to read an article in a magazine, and with perhaps half the effort. He always took the bassline first, then added the top line or solo, and finally added all the obbligato stuff in between, and -- presto! -- Telemann was done. Telemann was also ...
One of the best things about recording all of Bach's cantatas is the nearly infinite number of discs that can be drawn from them. For example, now that Ton Koopman has completed his series of recordings of the extant cantatas, his performances can be re-grouped in various ways. This disc takes four Ascension Day cantatas recorded by Koopman with ...
One of the seemingly endless possibilities for programming Bach's cantatas, this 2008 Antoine Marchand disc drawn from Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir's survey of the complete surviving cantatas joins five works featuring either alto or tenor soloists. The first two works here feature Polish alto Bogna Bartosz, the third ...
François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux is the 40th release on Jordi Savall's Alia Vox label. Savall is no stranger to Couperin, and this marks the fourth disc-long traversal of some aspect of Couperin's literature that Savall has made since 1976. Taking seriously Couperin's own offhand comments about how these pieces were initially played, and the ...
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