Album Reviews
Review: Vox Luminis, A Nocte Temporis Perform Charpentier
Charpentier's "Orphée Descendant Aux Enfers" and "La Descente D’orphée Aux Enfers" performed by Vox Luminis and A Nocte Temporis.
Period Instruments
Album Reviews
Review: "Farinelli" – Cecilia Bartoli, Antonini
Cicilia Bartoli in album of Baroque arias written for the famed castrato Farinelli.
Album Reviews
Review: "Facce D'amore" – Jakub Józef Orliński, Emelyanychev
Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in an album which examines the male lover in the Baroque era. He is accompanied by Il Pomo D'oro and Maxim Emelyanychev.
Best of
Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2019
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.
Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven – "Leonore" – René Jacobs
In his new release of "Leonore", René Jacobs perform the early version of Beethoven's opera, "Fidelio", with soloists and the Freiburger Barockorchester.
Album Reviews
Review: Bach – Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin – Thomas Zehetmair
In this new survey for ECM, Thomas Zehetmair returns to the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, this time on period instruments (2019).
Album Reviews
Review: Bach – Violin Concertos – Debretzeni, Gardiner
Kati Debretzeni, the English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner presents Bach's two Violin Concertos, together with two Keyboard Concertos transcriptions.
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Review: Handel – Messiah – Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall is joined by Capella Reial de Catalunya and Concert des Nations and soloists Rachel Redmond, Damien Guillon, Nicholas Mulroy and Matthias Winckhler.
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Review: Bach – Overtures (Orchestral Suites) – Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini
Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano perform the 4 "Overtures" (Orchestral Suites) by Bach and other siblings.
Album Reviews
Review: Purcell – King Arthur – Gabrieli Consort & Players – Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Consort & Players in Purcell dramatic opera.