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In the old days when people used to go to a record store, buy a recording, then take it home and have a couple of
One of the benefits of the current “catalog-dumping” trend from
London Baroque offers another installment in its ongoing European Trio Sonata series, this time devoted to 18th-century Italy; as with the ensemble’s previous efforts the
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,
This disc is really something special. Collectors are so spoiled for choice in the baroque repertoire at present, particularly on period instruments, but even in
There is absolutely nothing here to criticize. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is one of the premier ensembles of its type, and it performs this music
Listening to Locatelli’s four-hour-plus magnum opus L’Arte del Violino (The Art of the Violin) can be something of an ordeal. The 12 concertos are not
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
In the last few years a number of new recordings have appeared that feature Baroque era (and even earlier) music from the New World. Many
