These works are by Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini, the lesser-known older brother of Italian symphonist Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Giuseppe was active for much of his career in England, where he gained fame as an oboe virtuoso. The album cover should make clear which Sammartini is meant, for the older brother's music doesn't have quite the ...
The delightfully unusual disc Alla turca takes its initial inspiration from the failed 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turks and never looks back. The music explored here belongs to the Holy Roman Empire of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, an empire that celebrated both the arms that held back the Islamist hordes, and the more ...
This experimental disc seems to be the brainchild of the Belgian-Québécois recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute, who wrote the notes and composed most of the new music contained herein. The album is noteworthy for not sounding like anything else ever recorded, but it has a bit too many things going on. Maute proposes a "dialogue entre l'Europe et l'Am ...
There are plenty of choices for buyers wanting a single-disc assortment of Telemann's music, but this one gives a better feel for the composer than most of the others. Telemann mit Freude (Telemann with Joy) lives up to its title with lively, warm performances. The disc includes selections for soprano from various Telemann cantatas, interspersed ...
The title of the series labeled Naturally on Quebec's ATMA classique label refers to the eco-friendly packaging of the discs rather than to any specifcally musical content. (And by the way, is it more eco-friendly to run a computer and charge an iPod for a few hours or to buy and play a CD?) The content seems to have been chosen for light, on-the ...
The listener may be surprised to find such familiar works as Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat on a recording of music for women's choir. Conductor Matthias Maute offers this rationale for this unusual presentation of works that were scored for mixed voices. The composer wrote these, and many of his works, for the girls and young women of the ...
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