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Your guide to classical music online
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Your guide to classical music online
How do you improve on perfection? My colleague David Vernier has already drawn your attention to the extraordinary accomplishment and sonic immediacy of this remarkable
Bach’s Violin and Harpsichord Sonatas hardly suffer from a lack of fine recordings. Yet these absorbing performances stand out for their intellectual and emotional vigor,
Telemann’s 12 solo fantasias–Baroque masterpieces–are still overlooked to the point that any new recording should make a violin lover’s mouth water. Unfortunately, however, British violinist
Rachel Podger’s small-scale, dynamically constricted, enervated, and emotionally withdrawn playing gives little clue to the harmonic tension, lofty architecture, and cumulative power of these works,
