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Here’s a first-rate chamber-instrumental Christmas program that happily adopts a concept, establishes a mood and style, and stays with it all the way to the
Guitarist Edoardo Catemario offers absolutely lovely tone at all dynamic levels, and that makes the opening crescendo of the Concierto de Aranjuez, or the harp-like
Are there any bad recordings of the Concierto de Aranjuez? This certainly isn’t one. Luis Orlandini plays very enthusiastically, with a focused tone and plenty
The works of French Baroque viola da gamba virtuoso/composer Marin Marais are among the most exalted and refined examples both of French style and of
As an experiment, I listened to this recital’s opening work via conventional two-channel playback, and got no sense of a live guitarist interacting with a
John Rutter’s Mass of the Children was recorded by the composer and his Cambridge Singers shortly after the work’s premiere in 2003. That version, for
It turns out that there is more than one Danish composer with the surname Koppel. Not to be confused with Herman D. Koppel (whose excellent
These three works all demonstrate Paul Chihara’s characterful combination of simple melody with cutting-edge orchestral sonorities. He’s particularly fond of atmospheric tone clusters for strings
Sean Hickey, a Detroit-born composer on the New York scene, is featured here in a program comprised primarily of solo and chamber music. The basic
Altre Follie is Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI’s follow-up to their critically acclaimed 1998 La Folia recording (type Q6449 in Search Reviews). Like the previous
