The Rare Fruits Council

Locatelli & Leclair sonatas/Kraemer

David Vernier

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,

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RARIORA & MARGINALIA

John Greene

Rare Fruits Council violinist/director Manfredo Kraemer explains in the liner notes that the point here is to offer a program of Baroque works rarely performed

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Bach, Trio Sonatas/Astree Naive C

ClassicsToday

These are expanded arrangements of some of Bach’s trio sonatas, configured for the whimsically named Rare Fruits Council: two violins (one player also performs on

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