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Have you noticed the growing trend of pianists taking up 17th-century keyboard works on the modern concert grand? Perhaps it has to do with the
Since a good number of piano works by Busoni, Casella, and Respighi flirt with ancient content, it makes sense both conceptually and musically for Umberto
The clarity and immediacy of the late-16th-century harpsichord that Christophe Rousset uses for this all-Frescobaldi recital unquestionably suits his contrapuntally astute yet unabashedly dramatic interpretations.
Frescobaldi’s contemporaries found his eccentric personality and progressive keyboard oeuvre perplexing, and today’s listeners tend to either love or hate his music, regardless of the
Jephte was Carissimi’s masterpiece–a highly inspired oratorio on par with Monteverdi’s renowned Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, likewise loaded with dramatic scenarios and operatic
As with the last recording I reviewed by this group (arias of J.S. Bach–see reviews) the music presented has an underlying programmatic scheme that’s not
Inspired by pioneering recordings made with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Michael Allen, principal tuba player of the Boulder Philharmonic, founded the Boulder Brass in
Frescobaldi was the first great keyboard composer of the Baroque era, and an exact contemporary of Monteverdi. The collections of pieces that he published under
