
London Baroque offers a selection of mostly unfamiliar yet often inspired French baroque trio sonatas. With the exception of François Couperin’s L’Imperiale, the works by
Forget the confusing and contradictory liner notes and the somewhat shaky pretense for including the works of these two 18th-century violin-virtuoso/composers on the same program,
What a splendid offering! I haven’t heard this kind of harpsichord duet playing since the grand collaborations of Igor Kipnis and Thurston Dart. The harpsichordists
I have a personal confession that relates to discussing this recording: I am a violist, one who came to the instrument after many years as
No matter how you cut it, this is terrific violin playing. And the best–somewhat ironically, considering the disc’s title–comes after the program’s opening Tartini (“Devil’s