Boston Early Music Vocal & Chamber Ensembles, directed by Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs75:50cpo 555678-2 During the 17th and 18th centuries, it was customary to celebrate a major peace treaty or important victory with both sacred and secular music, in the case of the former a Te Deum, often freshly composed. Meanwhile, poets and composers […]
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Ambronay Festival 2025
Over the years, the special event that is the Ambronay Festival has formed an important part of my musical life, something I attempted to articulate in a special article for EMR on the occasion of the 40th edition of the festival in 2019. Since then, for a variety of reasons, my visits to Ambronay came […]
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Bach: St Matthew Passion
Dunedin Consort, directed by John ButtThe Queens Hall, Edinburgh – 11 April 2025 The regular performance of the Matthew Passion by the Dunedin Consort is an annual event, with performances this year in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth. There is a regular clientele, in evidence from the animated exchanges in the bar before and after the performance, […]
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Bach: Mass in B minor
Julie Roset, Beth Taylor, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Christian Immler SmSATB, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon107:21 (2 CDs in a card triptych)harmonia mundi HMM 902754.55 Everything in this new recording of the B-minor Mass is perfect – clarity, flawless instrumental technique and excellent voices – provided you want a performance that takes the complex compilation of […]
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Vivaldi incognito
Hexaton, Guillaume Rebinguet Sudre60:00Encelade ECL 2302 Whatever the artistic merits of this recording (and I do not deny that Hexaton and its violinist, Guillaume Rebinguet Sudre, are outstanding artists), there are elements of the project itself that I find baffling. The recital does not consist of some freshly discovered works, but rather three sonatas from […]
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Gregor Werner Vol. 4
Voktett Hannover, la festa musicale, Lajos Rovatkay59:41audite 97.833 For the fourth volume of this excellent series, director-cum-musicologist Lajos Rovatkay has chosen to focus on Gregor Joseph Werner’s relationship with his teacher, Vice-Kapellmeister to the Viennese court, Antonio Caldara. As well as tracing the birth of the two-movement church sonata from sinfonie to the elder composer’s […]
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Navigating Foreign Waters
Spanish Baroque & Mexican Folk MusicMaria Cristina Kiehr, Krishnasol Jiménez, Roberto Koch 51:30Brilliant Classics 96205 This CD arose from the quest of three musicians based in South America to explore the Spanish roots for their folk music. The already distinctive son of much Spanish music in the 16th and 17th centuries underwent further transformation on contact […]
Quartetto Vanvitelli68:20Arcana A531 The name of Giuseppe Agus was new to me. After a degree of disambiguation, Miriam Quaquero – who wrote the excellent programme note for this CD – has been able to distinguish Gabriel Joseph Antonio Agus and Giuseppe (later Joseph) Agus father and son, musicians from Sardinia who lived and worked in […]
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In Copisteria del Conte
Musical delights from the Genoese palazziJacopo Ristori cello and artistic director136:00 (2 CDs in a card triptych)Snakewood Editions SCD202401 The arrival of this set took me back to the good old days of the “early music revival” when almost every consignment sent for review contained at least one recording that explored completely new repertoire. These […]
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre87:28Château des Versailles Spectacles CVS145 Those familiar with the life and works of Monteverdi can be forgiven if they feel slightly confused by the title of this thrilling, pulsating issue. They are, of course, likely to be aware that 1643 is the date of Monteverdi’s death, not a date of publication […]