Chatting with Curious Flutist Emi Ferguson
In an interview, Ferguson discussed how playing old music and contemporary works inform one another, the wonder of Bach’s music, and more.
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CD Review: Fresh Take On Goldberg Variations
These performances bubble over with the energy and warmth of a celebration for five friends who just happen to be incredibly knowledgeable and sensitive students of Bach’s music.
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Sorrell Documentary Profiles A Compelling Musician
‘Playing with Fire: Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting’ will interest and inspire anyone who loves music or just a well-crafted story about a fascinating person.
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CD Review: Galou Offers Deeply Expressive Vivaldi
The latest release in Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition — which is recording the entire collection of the composer’s manuscripts at Turin’s Italian National University Library — gives the deepest feminine voice lots of love.
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CD Review: Kožená Electrifies In Dramatic Fare
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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CD Review: Bachs On Harpsichord And Fortepiano
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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CD Review: Classical Obscurities Elegantly Shaped
A new recording by Simon Murphy and the New Dutch Academy includes world-premiere recordings of three symphonies and Stephen Storace’s aria “Domestic Peace,” as well as the first recording of Carl Friedrich Zelter’s Concerto in E-flat for Viola and Orchestra on period instruments.
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CD Review: Baroque Cellists Reach The Heights
On their new recording, ‘Out of Italy,’ Phoebe Carrai and Beiliang Zhu have created a rich, extraordinarily performed program of Baroque and early Classical works
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CD Review: Bach’s Luther Cantatas Inspirited
“Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,” a hymn virtually synonymous with Lutheranism, opens BWV 80 and exemplifies the reverent yet uniquely moving aesthetic of this recording by Montréal Baroque under Eric Milnes.
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