A long time ago, back in the 1970s, period instrument performances mostly sounded sweet and low down. Part of the reason for this was the catgut strings and the lower tuning, and part of the reason was that players seemed to prefer a mellower and rounder tone. But time passed and period instrument performances became more and more strident until ...
The opening Overture (Suite) in A minor is one of Telemann's most ambitious concerted works, running to seven distinct dance movements in 30 minutes. The rhythmic shifts in the "Air à l'Italien" are pretty abrupt and really catch your attention. Of the three concertos, the Double Concerto in A minor for flauto dolce and viola da gamba is a ...
Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos, arguably the most often performed works in the entire repertory of classical music, stand apart from the rest of his output by virtue of their very popularity. Every group of performers feels the necessity of adding something to the dialogue that surrounds the work. Here Swedish recorder player Dan Laurin ...
As usual with France's Alpha label, the nicely reproduced painting included, analyzed in the booklet, is worth the purchase price all by itself. It's a British image of Mount Vesuvius erupting, painted in the late 1780s, and its extreme details, starting with the magenta coloring, point not to realistic depiction but to the philosophical concept ...
Is the world a smaller place in the twenty first century than it was in the eighteenth century? Consider first that this three-disc set on the Swedish BIS label features the Polish period-instrument ensemble Arte dei Suonatori led by French conductor Martin Gester. Then consider that the music they are performing is the Concerto Grossi, Op. 6, of ...
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