The material on this disc may be a footnote to musical history, but, as anyone who has read David Foster Wallace can tell you, the best stuff is sometimes in the footnotes. La tavola cromatica contains music that might have been associated with a viol academy of early seventeenth century Rome, established by Cardinal Francesco Barberini -- scion ...
This album marks a second selection of pieces recorded by performer John Kitchen on historical keyboard instruments from Scotland's Raymond Russell Collection, and either or both albums make superb choices for anyone interested in what keyboard music sounded like before the piano and before the essentially engineering-oriented procedure of equal ...
This disc, apparently compiled from preexisting recordings, was made to accompany an art exhibition covering the papal sphere in Rome in the early seventeenth century. Given that it is meant, perhaps, to illustrate general aesthetic principles, one might forgive the omission of texts for the vocal pieces. Not all the music here would normally be ...
Rather than spending thousands of dollars on a graduate degree in Baroque art, you could just pick up the Alpha label's Baroque music releases as they appear, and then devote an evening a week to studying them closely. Each Alpha recording pairs music, generally by a single composer, with close analysis of a painting from the same period, ...
The central work on this collection of seventeenth century vocal music is Carissimi's Jephte, a 25-minute oratorio, for voices and continuo, that swiftly and powerfully presents the biblical story of the warrior who prepares to sacrifice his daughter, Filla (Anne Grimm), in thanks for his success in battle. The entire group of soloists here ...
The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by Argentine-born Baroque specialist Maria Cristina Kiehr and still understand why that is: the composers ...
This disc of music from the early Baroque and late Renaissance -- in the realm of keyboard music the distinction is much less clear than in vocal music -- is performed on a moderate-sized, newly restored Italian organ whose voice is marvelously well suited to the repertoire. Performing even the big contrapuntal pieces of Girolamo Frescobaldi on a ...
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