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 ...
With the exception of the fragmentary Sonata in C major, K. 403, here, Artaria published these sonatas by Mozart in 1781 as being for piano with violin accompaniment, as was done with many similar works of the time. Most people would agree, however, that these are true duo sonatas with the violin and piano being equal partners. In this recording, ...
Appreciation of Andrew Manze's and Richard Egarr's delicious set of Handel's complete violin sonatas takes little more than open ears and a willingness to let go of preconceptions or certainties. Complete -- according to the best scholarship -- means only five bona fide sonatas (those in D major, D minor, A major, G minor, and G major), three ...
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 ...
As Andrew Manze remarks in the liner note for this album, the sonata was perhaps "but a toy theatre in Handel's world of architectural splendours." Indeed, the eight sonatas, with the addition of two independent movements, provide an insight into a world far removed from the imposing, monumental Handelian works known to many listeners. But these ...
In most collections of Bach's harpsichord works, the Italian Concerto and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue are regularly found, but Richard Egarr is almost apologetic for including such favorites on this disc. He is quick to point out in his liner notes how hearing them in context -- alongside Bach's lesser known transcriptions -- may bring a ...
Rich and sonorous but robust and strong, Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music's January 2006 recording of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 3, is exemplary Handel playing. The Academy, of course, are long familiar with how to play Handel: they've been performing his music as a group since being started in England by harpsichordist ...
Rich and sonorous but robust and strong, Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music's January 2006 recording of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 3, is exemplary Handel playing. The Academy, of course, is long familiar with how to play Handel: it has been performing his music since being founded in England by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in ...
For some, the dry, vibrato-less tone of Andrew Manze's period violin and the light, crisp tone of Richard Egarr's fortepiano might seem too desiccated for Schubert's full-bodied early Romanticism. But for others these qualities will be virtues, removing from these youthful works the wide-toned, super-virtuoso approach of modern violinists and ...
Put on track 3. Go ahead, put it on. You seriously won't believe what comes through the headphones. This is Mozart? This super-virtuosic, super-vitriolic, supernatural spook house music is little Wolfgang's fantasie [Capriccio] in C major? Where's the charmingly elegant and endlessly delightful Mozart? As a matter of fact, that Mozart is also ...
Above everything else, Richard Egarr wants to make his harpsichord sing, to let its ringing tones and majestic sonorities sculpt a legato line similar to the sound of the human voice. While this may seem an unlikely if not altogether impossible goal given the plucked and struck harpsichord's justified reputation as a keyboard instrument with ...
Fine as they are, these performances of Mozart's violin sonatas from 1781 are a little bit too much of a good thing. A virtuoso violinist with a tender tone and a bouncy sense of rhythm, Andrew Manze seems to be trying too hard here to persuade, making lines dazzle when sparkling would be enough, making colors shimmer when shining would be enough, ...
The casual buyer might stumble on this two-disc set and assume, from the presence of the well-worn Book One of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and from the reliable imprint of the Harmonia Mundi USA label, that this was a safe, mainstream choice for this central Bach repertory item. It is anything but. The good news is that some online sampling will ...
These sonatas for violin and continuo, dating from the court of the Holy Roman Empire in Innsbruck in 1660, are little known; perhaps the only other recording of them is a later one by their champion, Andrew Manze. If you like the woolly world of seventeenth century violin music, this composer belongs in your library. The later recording, which ...
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