The ensemble’s impressive first disc promises and delivers the complete works of Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), the accomplished daughter of a prosperous Iberian converso jeweler who was resident in Antwerp.
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On its new recording, ‘Folia,’ the ensemble’s comfort with the material shines through. The slower movements are graceful and expressive, the faster ones exciting.
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Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená’s first album on the Pentatone label centers on the protagonists of four tragic Baroque cantatas.
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There are a lot of compelling and fascinating arguments for this kind of program featuring harpsichordist Rebecca Cypess and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang. Yet the recital justifies itself entirely on musical grounds.
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Sarasa Ensemble’s latest CD brackets Boccherini’s ‘Stabat Mater,’ featuring soprano Dominique Labelle, with two pieces of chamber music for strings, a quartet, Op. 52, No. 3 (G. 234), in G major, and a quintet, Op. 42, No. 1 (G. 348), in F minor.
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