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Conductor Diego Fasolis and his very capable forces do everything they can to breathe life into these two competently written though stylistically mediocre and often
The most striking thing about this set of Beethoven piano concertos is the use of “improvised” cadenzas by Galina Vracheva. Whether these were created in
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
Handel’s compact Sixth Suite elicits fine work from harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone. Listen for example to the Prélude’s well-adjusted runs and decorations, to the crisply delineated
This set conveniently boxes up excellent performances of Vivaldi’s two most popular works. Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione contains not just The Four Seasons, but
Mendelssohn’s piano duet version of his youthful Octet certainly cannot replicate the resonance and inflections of its better known counterpart for eight stringed instruments. Still,
This 1997 recording of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor has been available for a long time, and given the competition before and after its
On the surface, meaning in terms of the sound of instruments and voices, this is yet another of several imaginative and effective realizations of songs
Alessandro Orologio was a late-Renaissance composer and instrumentalist primarily remembered for his modest collections of stylistically conservative, well-crafted madrigal cycles and canzonettes (light secular vocal
The six nocturnes that open Volume 2 of Arts Music’s Sgambati piano music cycle are charming, tuneful examples of ersatz Chopin. You could imagine more
