The Vivaldi Concerto for mandolin and orchestra, RV 425, was an essential component of the 1970s classical LP collection -- with the mandolin amped up so loud in order to compete with a large orchestral string section that it sounded like an electric guitar blazing through an arena rock concert. Things have improved a bit since then, but balance ...
This is a collection of viola da gamba pieces with continuo (theorbo or guitar and harpsichord) by Marin Marais, student of Lully and the elusive M. de Sainte-Colombe. Of his five books of viol music, the fourth, from the later and more experimental part of his career, furnishes most of the music on the disc. Actually "experimental" is not quite ...
Welcome to the mysterious world of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, the French Baroque composer who perfected the art of playing the viola da gamba and inspired a generation of virtuosos but left so little of his own music behind -- so much of it in a fragmentary and disorganized state that putting together a program requires not only a bravura ...
Although it was once assumed that J.S. Bach wrote these 8 Concertos for harpsichord to learn the finer points of the Italian concerto form, it is now thought that he adapted these pieces to increase his performing repertoire, rather than to perfect his compositional technique. These works are based on six string concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, an ...
Swiss recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger is one of the most exciting specialists on his instrument to come along since the late and lamented David Munrow, and he was already becoming an established touring artist in Europe while still a student. Having previously delivered two fine discs of Telemann and Giuseppe Sammartini chamber works, Harmonia ...
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