Lean and austere, yet deeply felt and profoundly spiritual, the first volume in Chandos' series of recordings of Bach's early Cantatas is a complete success. With one player and one singer per part, these are chamber music-scaled performances: it is quite lean and very austere. But that's fine: the musicians are all superb and the music benefits ...
Dietrich Buxtehude is a composer whose reputation is on the rise as performers look beyond the organ works that Bach took a 300-mile stroll to hear, and find a wealth of other riches. This disc, the second of a pair issued by its performers covering the similar repertory, focuses on a group of highly accomplished religious pieces for one or more ...
The chamber music of François Couperin comes to mind less readily than do his keyboard works, and the trio (and duo) sonatas heard here are less familiar than the set of Concerts royaux known as "Les goûts réunis" (The Tastes Reunited), composed a few years earlier and intended, as the subtitle suggested, to fuse the new tunefulness coming out of ...
Lush and sensuous, the Purcell Quartet's 1985 recording of sonatas and trio sonatas by Vivaldi belies both the purity of period instruments and the chastity of the music. Violinists Catherine Mackintosh and Elizabeth Wallfisch, cellist Richard Boothby, and harpsichordist Robert Woolley use intonation not portemento to create nuances, phrasing not ...
Although he also wrote operas, religious music, and other chamber works, French Baroque composer Marin Marais is deservedly best remembered for his five books of over 550 pieces featuring the viola da gamba. This 1988 disc in Hyperion's series of recordings centered around the famous La Folia theme features three suites drawn from larger suites -- ...
Chandos first issued this disc of Catherine Bott and the Purcell Quartet back in 1997 as Vivaldi: In furore. Here it comes again, this time with a snazzier, more exotic front cover as Vivaldi: Laudate Pueri, Dominum. Nothing else about the package or contents have changed, and this is good news as this disc is one of the best Baroque offerings to ...
When recording Bach's 199 sacred cantatas, various strategies have been employed to impose meaningful order on them. There's the "everything from BWV 1 to BWV 199" approach, the "everything in the church year" approach, and the less frequently employed "everything in chronological order" approach, adopted here by the Purcell Quartet. In this the ...
A lovely disc when it was first released in 1987 as part of Hyperion's series of recordings built around works based on the famous, sinuous La Folia theme, this disc of chamber and orchestral music by Francesco Geminiani performed by England's Purcell Quartet and Purcell Band was equally lovely when it was re-released 20 years later in 2007. ...
This is a lower price Helios re-release of a disc that was an instant classic from the time it was first issued in 1988, the Purcell Quartet's C.P.E. Bach: La Folia and other works. The disc features four chamber pieces and one harpsichord solo that, taken together, span all but the first and last decades of his output and contains some of the ...
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