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Johan van Veen
The Monteverdi Organ (Brilliant Classics)
Groundbreaking from the perspective of performance practice [JV]
Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
If you have no recording of this work in your collection, this is a good choice [JV]
Vivaldi: Sonatas for 2 Violins (Brilliant Classics)
Vivaldi’s instrumental music is more theatrical than these performances suggest [JV]
Wenn ich nur Dich hab (Carpe Diem Records)
Top-class performances of German sacred music from the baroque period [JV]
Aumann: Chamber Music (Challenge Classics)
Entertaining music by a little-known composer, played with infectious enthusiasm [JV]
Hofer: Psalms (Christophorus)
This disc suggests that the oeuvre of Hofer deserves to be thoroughly explored [JV]
More than a dull ripieno! (Da Vinci Classics)
A most enjoyable disc, to which one may return regularly [JV]
Messes anonymes (Musique en Wallonie)
These two masses are fascinating stuff, but the style of singing may not be everyone’s cup of tea [JV]
Heinichen: Dresden Vespers (Accent)
Excellent recording of music by a composer who was in no way inferior to the best of his time [JV]
Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli: Violin Concertos (Harmonia Mundi)
An excellent demonstration of what was written for the violin in the high baroque era [JV]
Capricornus: Vocal & Instrumental works (Nibiru)
A perfect demonstration of the quality of Capricornus’s oeuvre [JV]
Schütz: David & Salomon (harmonia mundi)
An interesting production that is marred by some serious issues [JV]
Veggio, Ridio, Bertoldo: Complete Organ Music (Brilliant Classics)
Scandali could not have made a better choice than the oldest of the two organs in San Petronio [JV]
Voices – Ephrata Cloister (Bright Shiny Things)
A very interesting production, both historically and musically [JV]
Ariosti: Lessons for viola d’amore (Brilliant Classics)
A perfect disc to become acquainted with the viola d’amore and Ariosti’s sonatas [JV]
de Lalande: Les soupers du roi (Château de Versailles)
Lively and colourful performances of Louis XIV’s favourite music [JV]
Dreyer: Sacred Music (Brilliant)
Dreyer’s works are well worth the efforts to save them from the effects of a flood [JV]
Bach-Abel Society (Mirare)
A very entertaining disc, which gives a good impression of what may have been performed at the Bach-Abel concerts [JV]
S:t Sigfrids Officium – Celebrimus karissimi (Sterling)
For those who are interested in ancient liturgical practices, this is a very interesting disc to have [JV]
Virtuoso Music of the 16th & 17th Century for Cornetto (Arta)
Perfect demonstration of the excitement that the cornett can arouse [JV]
Song of Beasts (Ramée)
Impressive performances of fascinating medieval music about real and mythological creatures [JV]
Aguilera: Organ Music (Brilliant)
Another fine contribution to the Brilliant Classics keyboard music catalogue [JV]
Werner: Salve Reginas, Pastorellas (Audite)
An impressive testimony to Werner’s skills in composition [JV]
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