Teodor Currentzis conducts the period instruments group musicAeterna in Beethoven’s Symphonies 5 and 7. A review of both albums.
Tag: Period Instruments
Review: “Contralto” – Nathalie Stutzmann, Orfeo 55
Contralto Nathalie Stutzmann features as both a soloist and conductor in works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Lotti, and a handful of world-premieres by other Baroque composers.
Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 9, “L’Addio” – Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn Symphonies cycle, this time with Symphonies HOB. 15, 35 and 45, “Farewell”.
Review: “London, Circa 1720, Corelli’s Legacy” – La Rêveuse
La Rêveuse examines Corelli’s legacy on London’s music scene in 1720, with works by Handel, Babell, Geminiani and Schickhardt.
Review: Haydn – Die Schöpfung (The Creation) – Antonini
Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico perform Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” (The Creation), with soloists Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.
Review: Mozart – Violin Concertos – Christoph Koncz, Les Musiciens du Louvre
Christoph Koncz plays Mozart’s five Violin Concertos on Mozart’s own violin, with Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Review: Bach – Motets – Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Ensemble Pygmalion, under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, perform Bach’s six Motets, together with motets by other composers on a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 – Les Siècles, Roth
François-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siècles in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Gossec’s “Symphonie à Dix-Sept Parties”.
Review: “What’s Next vivaldi?” – Kopatchinskaja, Antonini
Patricia Kopatchinskaja presents a program which combines Violin Concertos by Vivaldi with contemporary works, together with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
Review: Bach – Johannes Passion – Bach Collegium Japan – Suzuki (2020)
20 years after their first recording, The Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki return to the St. John Passion, in a new recording made in Köln.
