TY - JOUR

T1 - Recordings for all seasons

AU - Cunningham, John

N1 - E-pub 6 dec 2022, Issue date November 2022

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Early music

KW - performance

U2 - 10.1093/em/caac058

DO - 10.1093/em/caac058

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 50

SP - 535

EP - 538

JO - Early Music

JF - Early Music

SN - 0306-1078

IS - 4

ER -