In recent years, our understanding of the development of the Classical Viennese style has changed dramatically, all due to one composer: Johann Baptist Vanhal. While Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven still tend to be household names, Vanhal is not. And yet, as the Eybler Quartet points out on its new recording, he was in fact quite the groundbreaker.
Eybler Players Illuminate Vanhal Quartets Read More »
Everyone can get a taste of Pergolesi’s easy way with the Baroque style on this new CD, which couples his “Stabat Mater” with two Bach cantatas in well-performed renderings by the British ensemble La Nuova Musica under the direction of David Bates.
Pergolesi And Bach Handsomely Paired Read More »
Music from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales is taken, for the most part, from published sources in the 18th and early 19th centuries and expertly played by Montreal-based Ensemble La Cigale on appropriate instruments in what was called, even then, “the Scots drawing room style.”
Montreal Ensemble Relishes Celtic Baroque Music Read More »
This album acts much like an aural wine tasting, suggesting that some of Caravaggio’s paintings pair well, in subject and style, with musical works composed in the same general time and place.
Baroque Music Inspired By A Murderous Painter Read More »
The recording is nicely varied and well performed; the ensemble sings with a tasteful sense of unity and phrasing, and the perfect intervals resonate well in their acoustic space.
Ensemble Scholastica Makes Fine CD Debut Read More »
