Harmonia Mundi's Geminiani: Concerti Grossi VII-XII (after Corelli, Op. 5) is a single disc excerpted from a larger set issued in 1999 including all of Geminiani's concerti based on models of Corelli. That set was, and is, something of an expensive proposition, but certainly a first-class choice for the music of Geminiani, for the way the Academy ...
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is that rarest of rare things: a genuine world-premiere recording of a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach appropriately entitled Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' (All with Got and Nothing Without). A single-movement cantata setting of a birthday ode for Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar composed in 1713, the work ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas were written in Salzburg in the 1670s or 1680s, and they're really unlike anything else in the violin literature. Scordatura, or unconventional tuning of an instrument's strings, was common enough during the Baroque era, but Biber's cycle of 15 pieces for violin and continuo explores the technique ...
For many if not most fans of the elegant high classical style, the music of C.P.E. Bach sounds distinctly odd. His themes are sometimes pert and alert, sometimes anguished and angular. His harmonies are sometimes charming and ingratiating, sometimes elusive and mysterious. His forms are sometimes simple and straightforward, sometimes gnarly and ...
Harmonia Mundi's C.P.E. Bach: 4 Orchestra-Symphonies -- Cello Concerto in A Major features august British period ensemble the English Concert under the direction of its maestro di capella Andrew Manze in the four "Orchestra-Symphonies" from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that Wotquenne catalogs as "Wq. 183." To add variance and excitement to this ...
British flutist Philippa Davies has established a fine international reputation as a chamber recitalist and concerto soloist, but her recording career seems to be a bit spotty for a world-class performer; however, with this 2006 CD of J.S. Bach's flute sonatas, it appears she has sidestepped the major labels and taken matters into her own hands. A ...
This Erato release attempts to introduce the listener to various aspects, some perhaps neglected, of Pergolesi's work. Such an attempt would be quite laudable, Pergolesi mainly being known for his Stabat Mater and the brilliant intermezzo La serva padrona, were not Pergolesi: Marian Vespers, a random sequence of disparate vocal and instrumental ...
Jean-Marie Leclair was the first composer to truly establish a French style of playing for the violin and elevate the instrument to its rightful place as soloist. He also successfully merged his native French style with the very popular Italian school in which he immersed himself. Though he wrote four books of violin sonatas, only the latter ones ...
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