Category: Classical
-
Opella Musica/Gregor Meyer Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works
As far as we can gather from the interweb, which always speaks the truth, Kuhnau is on a par with JS Bach. While relatively unknown, he is about to become more famous and this CD of world premiere recordings marks the beginning of the first complete scholarly critical edition of Kuhnau’s cantatas, part of a…
-
Chamber Eroica: Symphony No.3 Explored
If you dislike “classical” music because of the reverence it provokes — that whole sitting in awe at the greatness of the music thing and bring on the garage punk — then Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 is arguably the cause of it all. A ground-breaking work, it marked the start of the Romantic period in classical…
-
Linos Ensemble: Kalkbrenner: Sextet, Septet and Piano Fantasy
This is a charming CD, featuring the word of Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849). As with many of the CDs we like, his name may not be familiar to most music lovers; in his day he was said to be the foremost pianist in Europe and (according to Wikipedia) became enormously rich because he had a sound…
-
Ruth Wilkinson, Miriam Morris, John O’Donnell: Handel’s Recorder
This album is pretty well what it implies: Handel, played on recorder. It’s noteworthy because it features three of Australia’s leading early-music specialists (it was recorded in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), playing instruments made to as closely resemble the ones of the time as possible, tuned as per in their day. The major…
Review Corner 