With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader ...
Supremely lovely and deeply beautiful, the performances on this two-disc set devoted to the music of Luigi Boccherini are compelling proof that the Italian-Spanish composer was more than a Rococo bantam weight. Beyond his well-known Minuet, Fandango, and "La Ritirada di Madrid" and his enormous number of cheerful cello concertos and sonatas ...
Just because the Ensemble 415 is a period-instrument string orchestra doesn't mean listeners should imagine that it is one of those scrappy and scrawny period-instrument ensembles. With 39 players -- eight each of first and second violins, five violas, six cellos, five basses, four lutes of various sizes, and one each of organ, harpsichord, and ...
What a great coupling: Vivaldi's two best-known sonatas for two violins with basso continuo, plus his four less-well-known sonatas for two violins without basso continuo. Superbly played by Ensemble 415 -- violinists Chiara Banchini and Véronique Méjean, cellist Käthi Gohl, and harpsichordist Jesper Christensen -- both sets of works prove ...
After composing a staggering 113 string quintets for two cellos, Boccherini's decision late in his life to write 12 additional quintets for two violas represents a rather drastic change for the composer. Written in 1801-1802, it is possible that Boccherini's own declining health during this time brought about a similar decline in his technical ...
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