Perhaps it's an example of a characteristically Dutch sense of humor to have a group called the Gents performing music by the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, the court composers of sixteenth century England. But when the group gets down to the music, it's all business. The Gents are not an English but a Dutch ensemble, formed of veterans of one of ...
Matthias Weckmann was a composer active in central and north Germany in the middle of the seventeenth century. The letter "n" at the end of his surname is usually doubled; the variant used here is acceptable, but the fluctuating usage in the booklet is not. In broad terms he was one of Bach's ancestors; his orientation and apprenticeship ...
This double disc combines material from several earlier recordings, featuring different performers (albeit under the umbrella of the same Belgian ensembles, the Ricercar Consort and La Fenice) recorded as far back as 1981. That practice can be an irritant, but here the two discs complement one another beautifully -- even if the graphic designer of ...
The viola da gamba is, today, somewhat of a musical anachronism. Ironically, the instrument was not extensively popular during Bach's lifetime, making the fact that he composed solo sonatas for the gamba a historical curiosity. Despite its relative obscurity, Mieneke van der Velden has created a remarkably successful and prolific career out of ...
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