

Like his contemporary Louis Couperin, Johann Jacob Froberger preferred to let his music speak for itself. He left no known treatises to clue the interpreter

The latest installment in CPO’s brilliant Atterberg cycle features the composer’s two wartime symphonies (though neither of them is concerned with war). Symphony No. 7

If you’re up for nearly 160 minutes of quintessentially charming German baroque chamber music, here is the set for you. The Camerata Köln lucidly performs

Dieter Klöcker leads his Consortium Classicum in a lovely, lively performance of Schubert’s Octet, one that gives the work’s poignant moments their due, while scrimping

This is the third and final disc of Cherubini’s String Quartets from Hausmusik London on CPO. Included are the first quartets Cherubini wrote when at

This disc completes Jürgen Sonnentheil’s excellent survey of Zelenka’s complete orchestral works. The highlight is a stunning rendition of Capriccio IV, capped by some pretty

Is it too early to start my “Recordings of the Year” list? The music and performances on this release are nothing short of a revelation.

This disc is a charmer. Wilhelm Peterson-Berger’s Fourth Symphony, subtitled “Holmia”, evokes the sites and sounds of his native Stockholm. It’s a light, carefree work

This third disc of Reger’s music for violin and piano features the B-flat Sonata Op. 107, originally written for clarinet but for which Reger happily

Benedetto Ferrari is hardly known at all today. Small wonder since he was more important as a librettist in Monteverdi’s Venice than as a composer,
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