This disc compiles material from several discs by the impressive French-Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, some of them originally featuring music by various composers. If you're looking for a singer who will carom daringly around the corners of a showpiece Handel aria like Renée Fleming or Vivica Genaux, LeBlanc is not that performer; her voice is ...
The stated "following the path of the trio sonata" concept of this album is a good one, for the journey leading from the Baroque trio sonata to the Classical string quartet is an intriguing one, with detours leading to most of Europe's musical capitals. Unfortunately, this disc falls wide of the mark in terms of delivering what it promises, ...
Here's a collection of Mozart's music for flute quartet, performed on authentic instruments by flutist Claire Guimond, who divides her time between Montreal and London, and England's Trio Sonnerie. The program includes a piece that's usually left off of such collections: the Flute Quartet in A major, K. 298, which is one of Mozart's purely ...
It's not clear why Telemann called these works "concertos" when they are really sonatas for transverse flute and harpsichord, with no tutti instrumental group involved. Annotator Jean-Claude Thériault works up an argument that it was due to the "concerted" nature of the music, with the flute and harpsichord playing generally equal roles instead of ...
The Montreal Baroque orchestra Arion has honed its skills and broadened its reach along with the rest of Montreal's vigorous early music scene, and it has attracted European soloists and conductors. Here the direction is by veteran Dutch gamba player Jaap ter Linden. He forges a rather cool but very finely detailed orchestral sound, with a really ...
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