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Bononcini: Cantate e Sonate

Bononcini: Cantate e Sonate

In short, at once a historically informative disc, and a most beautiful one.

The Art of Fugue: Filippo Gorini's fabulous project

There is no doubting that Filippo Gorini is one of the great thinkers around today ...

Bononcini: Cantate e Sonate

Bononcini: Cantate e Sonate

One of the jewels in Tactus' catalogue, beyond a shadow of a doubt - and the perfect introduction to the music of Giovanni Bononcini

Lamento: Iestyn Davies with Fretwork

Lamento: Iestyn Davies with Fretwork

Following on from the success of Fretwork/Iestyn Davies’ album IF from 2019 (works by Purcell and Nyman), Lamento offers works for voice and viol consort from 17th-century Germany. Perhaps the locale of the composers is the first noteworthy aspect: the viol consort has long been associated with England. This

Bach: Four Overtures

Bach: Four Overtures

One-to-a-part Bach that dances infectiously

Bach's Pergolesi Stabat Mater (!)

Bach's Pergolesi Stabat Mater (!)

This is a remarkable disc, thought-provoking, educational and brilliantly, flawlessly performed

Virtù e Amore: Music of Il secondo Barocco

Virtù e Amore: Music of Il secondo Barocco

Virtue and love: two vital aspects of Baroque thought and emotion

Nicola Benedetti: Baroque

Nicola Benedetti: Baroque

Benedetti is on radiant form in performances that are impeccably in style yet contain a real zest for life; a gift indeed

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Just. Don't. Miss. This. One.

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

Two beautifully complementary releases then, revealing different sides of this fascinating composer.

Discovering Bernardo Pasquini

Discovering Bernardo Pasquini

This is music brought vibrantly alive; it is musicology of the highest order, leading to performances of both spirit and integrity

Il Labirinto Armonico: Three Violin Concertos by Locatelli

Il Labirinto Armonico: Three Violin Concertos by Locatelli

The excellence of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, with a contunuo group that includes a lute, is never in doubt; neither is Gringolts' stunning virtuosity. But it is Locatelli that leaves the most lasting impression, just as it should be ...

Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music of the Italian States

Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music of the Italian States

A fascinating, intelligently programmed disc; well worth the investment

Purcell Royal Odes from The King's Consort

Purcell Royal Odes from The King's Consort

I can't help wondering if this is one of the crowning achievements of lockdown music

Exploring the lesser-known works of Frescobaldi

Exploring the lesser-known works of Frescobaldi

The more one listens, the more this music gives back

Telemann Christmas Cantatas

Telemann Christmas Cantatas

If you're looking for an alternative to the expected Christmas playlist, this might well be what you're looking for

Revelatory Legrenzi: 'Compiete,' Op. 7

Revelatory Legrenzi: 'Compiete,' Op. 7

This is one of the most significant Baroque releases I have come across this year

An Oratorio for Christmas: Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium

An Oratorio for Christmas: Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium

The Christmas Oratorio is a piece like no other

Bassoon Cantatas: the revelations of Christoph Graupner

Bassoon Cantatas: the revelations of Christoph Graupner

This is actually the third disc on cpo of cantatas by German Baroque composer Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): there has already been one on that label of Epiphany Cantatas, and another of "Solo and Dialogue" Cantatas, plus sundry others of his music. Not only that, but cpo led the

Versailles Double: Lully and Lalande - a grotto and some fountains

Versailles Double: Lully and Lalande - a grotto and some fountains

Versailles - surely one of the most beautiful places on Earth - threads through today's post like a golden ray of light. As we turn our attention to Lully's George Dandin, notice the opulent surroundings this video was recorded in while you enjoy the wonderfully tight

A Tale of Two Goldbergs; or, a Tale of Two Opposites

A Tale of Two Goldbergs; or, a Tale of Two Opposites

Two high-profile pianists have released their interpretations of Bach's Goldberg Variations, on two major labels, Hyperion and Deutsche Grammofon. Pavel Kolesnikov, on Hyperion, presents a performance that is shot full of integrity, and often revelatory, on one disc. The other, Lang Lang, offers two performances, one live and

Cafe Zimmermann with Damien Guillon: Lamento

Cafe Zimmermann with Damien Guillon: Lamento

The appeal of this ravishing disc is twofold: one, the astonishing countertenor Damien Guillon, who we have perviously met in the Classical Explorer post on Masaaki Suzuki's incredibly powerful Bach St Matthew Passion [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/masaaki-suzuki-and-bachs-st-mathew-passion/] and St John Passion [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/masaaki-sukukis-blistering-st-john-passion/]; and

Buried Treasures: Graun's opera, "Polydorus"

Buried Treasures: Graun's opera, "Polydorus"

This is one of those operas that is hard to excerpt simply because you end up wanting to excerpt everything

A Cornucopia of Scarlatti from Lucas Debargue

A Cornucopia of Scarlatti from Lucas Debargue

Swimming in Heaven: Lucas Debargue's Scarlatti

The stunning world of Salvatore Lanzetti

The stunning world of Salvatore Lanzetti

Unforgettable Baroque music delivered with consummate artistry