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The fifth-century Roman philosopher’s reflections on life were set to simple music by medieval musicians. Sequentia brings the melodies to life with beautiful counterpoint. —
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Moreno on his 1761 Gagliano is sunny of outlook and sweetly austere of playing style, articulation subtly detached, with vibrato switching between light and none. Zapico, meanwhile, is eloquent... —
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Crusell: Three Quartets for clarinet & strings
Eric Hoeprich (clarinet)
London Haydn Quartet (playing on historical instruments)
Three-quarters of the gut-string London Haydn Quartet warm their sound with the merest hints of vibrato … entirely enjoyable —Purchase product
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Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog
Madrigals by Cipriano de Rore
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
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Frescobaldi: Affetti amorosi
Arie musicali Firenze, 1630
Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), André Henrich (lute), Céline Scheen (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Kevin Manent-Navratil (harpsichord), Marie-Domitille Murez (harp), Benoît Arnould (bass), Julien Barre (cello), Benoît Arnould (baritone)
Le Banquet Céleste
The songs certainly display the feverish shifts between exhilaration and despair built into much baroque music. Frescobaldi’s contemporary Monteverdi admittedly writes more memorable tunes,... —
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Un opéra pour trois rois (An Opera for Three Kings)
A Versailles entertainment for Louis XIV, XV, XVI Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck
Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Emőke Baráth (soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone)
Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Conducted expertly by György Vashegyi, the Budapest-based Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra produce characterful panache, heroic swagger, balletic deftness and suave charm as each selection... —
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Dorothee Mields, Johannette Zomer (sopranos), Patrick van Goethem (alto), Jan Kobow (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen (direction)
The 'Gloria' dances, 'Cum Sancto Spiritu' is equally lithe and the semiquavers in 'Et resurrexit' are fluent and exact...The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is superb: its many virtues... —
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Boccherini En Boadilla
Enrico Gatti (violin), Emilio Moreno (viola), Gaetano Nasillo (cello)
La Real Cámara
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