
Helmut Walcha’s sober and un-selfregarding Bach interpretations dominated the German […]
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
Here’s a disc you won’t want to overlook if you’re a proto-baroque keyboard person. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was a splendid, innovative composer whose music
The Polish pianist Piotr Slopecki first came to my attention through his forceful and energetic 2013 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He follows up five
There is no musical genre more blissfully bound by tradition than that of Christmas music. The reasons for this are many and debatable, but suffice
The recent release of Alan Feinberg’s collection of English virginal
There are too few recordings of keyboard music by Sweelinck for it to sound momentous in claiming that this is the finest of them, but
Why has the choral music of 16th century Dutch composer Jan Sweelinck been so conspicuously ignored by choirs and record companies? Except for a now
This second volume from the Trinity College Choir containing the motets of 16th century Dutch composer Jan Sweelinck is every bit as musically worthy, well-performed,