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Johan van Veen
CPE Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (Channel Classics)
Enjoyable performances compromised by the use of an anachronistic fortepiano [JV]
Tartini: Violin Sonatas (Signum Classics)
Chandler fully explores the lyrical qualities of Tartini’s sonatas [JV]
Collection Grands Motets No 9: Lully – Te Deum Vol 4 (Château de Versailles)
The final disc in a series of four devoted to Lully’s choral motets [JV]
Oboe Concertos at the Court of Thurn und Taxis (Accent)
Thurn und Taxis’ star oboist Palestrini has found his peer in Xenia Löffler [JV]
The King’s Playlist – recital (Linn)
A promising debut: a portrait of musical life at Louis XIV’s court [JV]
J S Bach: St John Passion (Claves)
Despite some shortcomings, this is one of the better performances of the St John Passion [JV]
Lumen Christi – A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil (Ad Fontes)
The ecstatic joy at Christ’s resurrection is musically embodied here in a perfect manner [JV]
Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum (Alpha Classics)
Even if one does not need another Charpentier’s Te Deum, Desmarest’s setting deserves attention [JV]
Tůma: Motets, Dixit Dominus & Sinfonia (Aparté)
Andreas Scholl’s fine performances should help in promoting Tůma’s music [JV]
Handel & Ferrandini: Choral works (Passacaille)
Convincing performances of two very different masterpieces [JV]
Cavalieri: Lamentations (Pan Classics)
Incisive performances of stylistically groundbreaking and expressive works [JV]
Aretino: Sabbato Sancto – Lamentationes et Responsoria (Arcana)
The low tessitura and the slow tempi make these settings quite moving [JV]
Biber: Harmonia artificiosa (Archiv Produktion)
(Déjà Review) It will be very difficult to find a performance which more convincingly explores these brilliant compositions [JV]
Les Hautbois à la Chambre du Roi (Ricercar)
A fascinating picture of music at the time of Louis XIV [JV]
Goldberg & WF Bach: Trio sonatas (Audax)
Brilliant performances of Goldberg’s trio sonatas and a little-known piece by WF Bach [JV]
Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus; Palestrina: Tu es Petrus; Graziani: Motets (Coro)
Benevoli’s mass is a fine specimen of Roman polychorality in the 17th century [JV]
Ludford: Mass (Paraty)
A new perspective on the performance of the music of the English renaissance [JV]
Vestiva – Embellishing 16th & 17th Century Music (First Hand Records)
A fine demonstration of some of the main aspects of performance practice in music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque [JV]
Lusitano Impero – Portugese Baroque music (Passacaille)
This disc documents the strong Italian influence on the Portuguese late Baroque [JV]
de Monte: Madrigali spirituali (Passacaille)
Superb performances – the best possible case for Philippus de Monte [JV]
Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts (Coro)
A fascinating portrait of Striggio, but the performances are rather disappointing [JV]
Baur: Chamber Music (Passacaille)
The Accademia de’ Dissonanti are ideal advocates of Baur’s music [JV]
Marchand: Suites (Aparté)
The performers deserve praise for bringing this unknown composer to our attention [JV]
Alexander Chance (alto): Drop not, mine eyes (Linn Records)
Chance is a foremost representative of his generation in the falsetto range [JV]
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