Corelli's violin works were the locus classicus of the instrument's tradition at the height of the Baroque era, and several of the specialists in historical violin performance have taken their turns at realizing them in something like their original forms. This recording of the six violin sonatas of the composer's Op. 5 is by two veterans of ...
Bob van Asperen is never going to set the world on fire. First, of course, he is a classical musician. Second, he is a harpsichordist. Third, he specializes in historically informed performance practices. Fifth and most importantly, van Asperen, for all the brilliance of his technique and the depth of his performances, is no firebrand. He is a ...
You can be sure that infants aren't fussy about their classical collections, but grownups may feel that Bach for My Baby is a bit much to give to their offspring, considering the sophistication of the performances, the substantial length of the selections, and the seriousness of the music. Assembled from EMI's back catalog, dating between 1965 and ...
The Aeolus issue of Bob van Asperen's Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace) is a rather unusual survey in several ways. The central theme of this is tied to the two major conflicts in continental Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 80 Years War and the 30 Years War, both of which were ultimately resolved by the Westphalian Peace ...
The sonatas of Marco Uccellini, for violin and continuo, represent early manifestations of the virtuoso violin impulse that led to the instrumental masterpieces of the High Baroque. The music on this disc was written between 1645 and 1667, and it elaborates the semi-improvisatory quality of the earliest instrumental sonatas into spectacular, free ...
According to the available evidence, it appears that Johann Sebastian Bach, a 37-year-old widower of less than a year, composed these French Suites for Anna Magdalena Wilcke, a 20-year-old singer, daughter of a trumpeter, and Bach's second wife. If so, he must have really loved her. With their affecting Allemandes, their charming Courantes, and ...
The music of Louis Couperin has never had quite the celebrity of that of his uncle François or of the other famous French keyboard composers of the eighteenth century. The harpsichord works here date from around 1650. They were thus contemporary with reign Mazarin, the courtier and prime minister who really ruled France, at least until the ...
Purists may object and traditionalists may blanch, but for Bach fans with an open mind, this disc of harpsichord transcriptions of four of his solo violin works will be more fun than a barrel full of fugues. Although skillfully and soulfully performed by Dutch harpsichordist Bob van Asperen, the works themselves will take some getting used to. ...
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