With its Art and Music series, Naxos has come up with a classy looking way of recycling earlier items from its catalog. The discs in the series don't quite deliver what they promise, but this one does better than most. The title Rembrandt: Music of His Time is accurate as far as it goes; the art-historical essay on Rembrandt by Hugh Griffith is ...
Glen Wilson performs only a small sampling of Buxtehude's keyboard works on this disc, but that sampling is enough to demonstrate why Buxtehude was so highly regarded in his day. Although Buxtehude's organ works are more famous, these harpsichord works have the same imaginative variety and sophistication. La Capricciosa, the most well-known work ...
Giles Farnaby is a bit neglected among English Renaissance composers for the keyboard -- something that's hard to understand, for his contemporaries apparently thought highly of his works. They appear profusely in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the preeminent keyboard publication of Elizabethan and Jacobean times. The pieces heard here -- not all ...
French keyboard composer Gaspard Le Roux was one of the figures unearthed by the first wave of historical-performance-oriented harpsichordists, but performances of his work since then have been rare. There are several reasons for this: his total surviving output is sparse, some of the unmeasured preludes require a degree of imaginative ...
The second half of Corelli's Op. 5 sonatas, this volume of sonatas 7 -- 12 primarily contains works in the form of the Sonata ad camera. Anyone the least bit interested in works for the Baroque violin should absolutely have this album (and indeed, the first volume). The sonatas themselves are each true gems. The movements in this volume primarily ...
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