Ian Bostridge's collection of Handel arias and recitatives plunges boldly into the familiar repertoire -- pieces done so frequently that they're likely to be greeted with a yawn. It's a measure of Bostridge's confidence that he devotes much of the CD to these warhorses, and of his skill, that they come across as fresh and newly imagined. Bostridge ...
Andrea Gabrieli is a composer who has been greatly overshadowed by his nephew, Giovanni, but is given a chance here to take the spotlight by himself (well, mostly by himself) with I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble in this sampler of his madrigals. Most of Andrea's madrigals are rarely performed, much less recorded, but are ...
The "flute" involved in this album is a recorder, and the music is from England, which in the late seventeenth century just as now was the instrument's heartland among musical amateurs. The word "division" also has a specific meaning in this context: divisions were short variation sets that would unfold over a ground, one of the repeated bass ...
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