This is a reissue of a 1997 disc, rereleased and apparently remastered by the Laborie label; it's both musically immensely appealing and sonically quite spectacular, the setting of the Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon Secours in Paris being nothing short of ideal for these Baroque grands motets for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. You won't learn much ...
Franz Josef Haydn produced about a half dozen works for the Lire Organizzate, an eighteenth century hybrid of the hurdy-gurdy and organetto that by the twentieth century was nothing more than a museum instrument, with only about 20 examples extant and none playable. These works are commonly performed on recordings with a standard pipe organ in ...
The really cool thing about this disc collecting four of Bach's chamber works featuring the flute is not the playing of flutist Maria Tecla Andreotti, although she's fantastic; not the playing of harpsichordist Jan Willem Jansen, although he's marvelous; and not even the playing of gambaist Christophe Coin, although he's magnificent. No, the ...
The subsidiary figure of Cardenio in the novel Don Quixote -- a sort of romantic fool to match Quixote's wider madness -- had quite an afterlife in European literature and drama. Shakespeare may have written a play about him, now lost. The music by Michel-Richard de Lalande recorded here was written for a ballet that accompanied a large French ...
When Astree first released Christophe Coin's recordings of Bach's Cantatas in the mid-'90s, they were a twofold revelation. First, who knew that Christophe Coin, usually thought of as the great period instrument cellist, was also a great conductor? Second, who knew that Bach's Cantatas, usually thought of as the gloomiest of works, could be so ...
Recorded in 1994 and first released in 1995 on Astrée, Christophe Coin's performances of Bach's four cantatas featuring piccolo cello are masterpieces of the genre. As with all Bach's cantatas, the setting and scoring of each is distinctly different -- Ich bin ein guter Hirt (I am a good Shepherd) (BWV 85) is in six movements for four soloists, ...
Released in a jewel case by Astrée in 1995 and re-released in a slipcase but otherwise unaltered by Naïve in 2008, this disc coupling three cantatas by Bach has a unique unifying principal: all three cantatas contain movements accompanied by a solo violoncelle piccolo, the smaller, higher pitched cousin of the cello. In Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, ...
The idea of taking care of your wedding music needs with a single compact disc is a fairly recent one, and of the large number of discs available for the purpose, the vast majority are American or British. It is intriguing to observe what's similar in this budget release from the fine French label Naïve, and what's different. Would Americans, even ...
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