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After more than a decade of printed magazines from King's Music and The Early Music Company, Early Music Review moved online in 2015. The Early Music Review features music reviews, artist profiles, album information, news and updates from music industry.
Early Music Review
2d ago
Ulrike Hofbauer, Monika Mauch, Georg Poplutz, Thomas Gropper SATB, L’arpa festante, conducted by Markus Uhl64:54Christophorus CHR 77480 Johann Friedrich Fasch is today arguably best known for something he didn’t do rather than what he did. In 1723, having recently accepted the position of Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt-Zerbst, he withdrew his application to become ..read more
Early Music Review
1w ago
Music by Hume, Marais, Bach, Dollé, Purcell, CouperinKaori Uemura gamba, Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda gamba, Aline Zylberajch harpsichord63:06Ramée RAM2204 The Japanese viol player Kaori Uemura has chosen the yamato or old Japanese word “kagami” for a mirror as the title of her CD to acknowledge the fact that musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries viewed ..read more
Early Music Review
1w ago
Infermi d’Amore, Vadym Makarenko65:12eudora EUD-SACD-2206 This programme of music for strings incorporating concerti for solo violin, two violins, and cello respectively, and a sinfonia by Vivaldi, as well as an overture by Veracini and a violin concerto by Marcello, has been selected to represent a body of work which has been lost, left unfinished or ..read more
Early Music Review
1w ago
Olivier Baumont46:00Encelade ECL2204 The idea of a harpsichord for Marcel Proust may at first glance seem like a bit of a historical mismatch between an essentially Baroque instrument and a writer of the late 19th and early 20th century. But of course this is an author in search of times gone by, and harpsichords and ..read more
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1w ago
Lux Musicæ London58:00First Hand Records FHR137 I was blissfully unaware of the fundamental effect a recording by David Munrow and his Morley Consort of Morley’s Consort Lessons of 1599 featuring extended divisions had had on a teenage me until I invested in the CD version some forty years later and realised that it had truly ..read more
Early Music Review
1w ago
A Dramatic Oratorio, adaptation by Jeannette SorrellMargaret Carpenter Haigh, Molly Netter, Daniel Moody, Jacob Perry, Edward Vogel, Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire, directed by Jeannette Sorrell74:13Avie AV2629 I should start by addressing the edition of Handel’s Israel in Egypt created by the director Jeannette Sorrell for this recording. She ‘restores’ the opening Lament of the Israelites ..read more
Early Music Review
1w ago
Emily D’Angelo Serse, Paula Murrihy Arsamene, Daniela Mack Amastre, Lucy Crowe Romilda, Mary Bevan Atalanta, Neal Davies Ariodate, William Dazeley Elviro, English Concert, Harry Bicket172:38 (3 CDs in a card triptych)Linn CKD709 One of Handel’s last operas written against the backdrop of the collapse of the London operatic scene, which precipitated the composer’s inspired switch ..read more
Early Music Review
2w ago
Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Karine Deshayes, Lucile Richardot SSSmS, Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas64:00Aparté AP359 The story of the rape and subsequent suicide of the Roman noblewoman Lucretia in 509 BC has resonated down the centuries. As a political event that spelt the end of the Roman monarchy and as a personal tragedy, the sexual violence ..read more
Early Music Review
2w ago
Lise Vandersmissen triple harp78:00Et’cetera KTC 1826 The triple harp is something of a rare bird, as I soon discovered when attempting to expand the sketchy introduction to the instrument the Belgian performer Lise Vandersmissen provides in the note for her new CD. She tells us only that the instrument was invented in Naples at the ..read more
Early Music Review
3w ago
Giacomo Sciommeri: “Puote Orfeo col dolce suono” Il mito di Orfeo nella cantata italiana del SeicentoStrumenti della ricerca musicale No. 24 of the Società Italiana di Musicologia.Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca: 2022ISBN 978 88 5543 124 8 viii + 152pp. €20 The title in quotation marks is from the poetry of Benedetto Pamphilj, set by Handel ..read more