This release is not what the title and graphics make it seem, but it's worth having anyway, especially because, as violinist and Tafelmusik leader Jeanne Lamon points out in her enthusiastic and personal notes, early music groups tended in the first years of their existence to record a great deal of music in the hopes of promulgating their then-unique outlook. This album only intermittently features music by Baroque virtuosos, and it devotes a good deal of space to Bach, who was in some respects an anti-virtuoso. Instead, ...
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This release is not what the title and graphics make it seem, but it's worth having anyway, especially because, as violinist and Tafelmusik leader Jeanne Lamon points out in her enthusiastic and personal notes, early music groups tended in the first years of their existence to record a great deal of music in the hopes of promulgating their then-unique outlook. This album only intermittently features music by Baroque virtuosos, and it devotes a good deal of space to Bach, who was in some respects an anti-virtuoso. Instead, this release is a compilation of the music made since 1990 by Tafelmusik and Lamon, originally recorded for the Sony Classical and Analekta labels. Picked by Lamon herself, the selections on the album can stand as a good selection of Tafelmusik's hits, with a balance between Vivaldi and Bach favorites and the music of lesser-known figures like Schmelzer and Geminiani. The evidence for Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067, as a violin work is pretty slender, but certainly...
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