The Butter Quartet, who met as students at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, released their debut recording with ‘Scintilla: Early Italian String Quartets.’ In buoyant, impeccable playing, they capture the galant spirit of music by Pugnani, Boccherini, Lombardini Sirmen, and Giardini. Excellent performances of attractive, varied repertoire.
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With a lively writing style, Katherine Butler Schofield’s ‘Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858’ offers a deeply researched study of early Hindustani musical practices in courtly and colonial settings. The era is one of sociopolitical transition during the century of the powerful British East India Company’s conquest of India.
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Canadian violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay plays with uncommon immediacy, spontaneity, and rhetorical ease. In her latest recording, the violinist and her outstanding partners obsess over music by Biber, Buxtehude, Guillemain, and Francoeur — all delivered in three full dimensions and with real Baroque fire.
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‘It takes bravery to come here.’ On a daily basis, air-raid sirens drive everyone into bomb shelters, fearful of the next Russian attack. Yet the second edition of the Kyiv Baroque Festival, in war-ravaged, resilient Ukraine, is scheduled for next month. ‘The national ensembles have been designated as “reserve.” The government has realized that performances are good for society and important for morale.’
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With Notre-Dame set to reopen in December, this fine new recording celebrates sacred music linked to the cathedral, anchored by André Campra’s beloved Requiem. But the most interesting listening may be the handful of rarely heard motets, hymns, and mass settings by earlier composers at Notre-Dame.
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