Challenge Classics
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The true premise of this recital may be to display Vermeulen’s versatility; she is a rare specialist in both the 18th and 21st centuries, and she sings everything in between with understanding... —
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Calefax & Cora Burggraaf – The Roaring Twenties
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano)
Calefax (reed quintet)
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Mozart: Sonata For Two Pianos and Schubert: Fantasie For Piano Four Hands
Piano Duo Scholtes and Janssens
They breathe together, agree on relative dynamics and tonal colour and understand the balance of the textures...A consistently musical interpretation. —
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Period-instrument ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria takes the contrapuntal dexterity by the scruff of the neck and the musicians revel in readings that ooze brio and boisterous élan. Just occasionally... —
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The French Symphonic Organ at Aristen
The music of Frank, Saint-Saens and Widor, Alain & Dupré
Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ)
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J S Bach - Easter Cantatas
A reproduction - with the exception of the Passion - of the musical programme Bach offered in 1724, his first year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, to cover the period from 24th March (the Annunciation) to 11th April (the third day of Easter).
Barbara Schlick, Sibylla Rubens, Caroline Stam (soprano), Kai Wessel, Bernhard Landauer, Michael Chance (alto), Guy de Mey, Christoph Pregardien, Paul Agnew (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass)
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman
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Baroque Organ Music
Works by J S Bach, Scheidt, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Kauffmann, Balbastre, Walther & Rathgeber
Per Fidtjov Bonsaksen (Wagner organ, Nidarosdom by Trondheim, 1741)
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Buxtehude - Vocal Works 1
Caroline Stam, Orlanda Velez Isidro, Johannette Zomer, Robin Blaze, Andreas Karasiak & Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman (conductor & continuo)
Koopman's recording is stylish, warmly communicative and, generally speaking polished. Only moments of astringent upper string playing interrupted my enjoyment of music that is well worth getting... —
