Recordings for all seasons

This review covers a sextet of recordings from 2013 to 2021, traversing repertory from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries. Male and female composers are represented, well known and obscure (to varying degrees). The genres and instruments are diverse, as is the range of performance contexts from which they arose: domestic, salon, café, theatre, royal courts and pleasure gardens. Some of the music will be familiar to many but the batch also includes several world premiere recordings. While a single thematic thread is thus difficult to find they are, however, all exemplars of high quality.