Benjamin Alard - Alla veneziana - Bach: Complete Works for Keyboard Vol. 4Volume 4 of Benjamin Alard's complete recording of Bach's keyboard works continues to explore the Weimar period. After la franaise, we turn to Italy, where the Vivaldian concerto reigned in Venice. The young Bach created here a wonderful space of freedom between the transcriber and the improviser. Benjamin Alard performs on three exceptional instruments, including a magnificent 1702 harpsichord by Mattia de Gand, preserved in Treviso and recently

Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia

James Massiah

published in 1902

and the entire human race hanging in the balance

this captivating recital by Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano Quartet was conceived around Jake Heggie's song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire

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The single-movement Second String Quartet dates from 1970 opens with a keening

and James Hunter

and mayhem

New collaboration between Jakub Józef Orlinski and Il Pomo d'Oro

From 1859 he lived and worked in Paris

Now five European composers were additionally asked to quasi-casually prolong Schubert's ambivalences into the present by supplying their own variations