Consorts For Viols: Phantasm

Early Music News

• Nathalie Stutzmann / Bach: Imaginary cantata

  Monday, October 29th 2012

  
  Nathalie Stutzmann sings and conducts her 'cantate imaginaire' (Imaginary Cantata)... After attracting attention at the French 'Victoires de la Musique Classique' Awards in 2012, the contralto and conductor Nathalie Stutzmann is back with her Orfeo 55 ensemble.

• Fabio Biondi / Vivaldi: L' Oracolo in Messenia

  Wednesday, August 15th 2012

  
  Virgin Classics present the world-premiere recording of L'Oracolo in Messenia, an opera prepared by Vivaldi for Vienna and now reconstructed by Fabio Biondi.

• Isabelle Faust / Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV1001-3

  Thursday, August 2nd 2012

  
  Isabelle Faust hit the Classical charts earlier this year with her mesmerising recording of Beethoven and Berg with Claudio Abbado.

• Fabio Biondi / Telemann: Concertos & Suites

  Wednesday, June 27th 2012

  
  Founded in 1989 by Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante acquired an international reputation through his reading and his then revolutionary interpretation of music on period instruments.

• John Eliot Gardiner / Bach: Motets

  Thursday, April 26th 2012

  
  Thirty years on from their acclaimed recording for Erato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to the Bach Motets in a new SDG recording, taken from a concert in London last year at the end of a tour which saw performances in Italy, France, The Netherlands and Germany.

• Ludger Remy / Bach: Six Suites BWV 1007-1012

  Wednesday, April 11th 2012

  
  Much has been written about the Suites, so only a minimum needs mentioning here. Bach is assumed to have composed the Suites in Kothen around 1720; it is unclear whether they were all composed there or whether Suites IV and VI were completed later in Leipzig.

• Christophe Rousset plays Marchand & Rameau

  Tuesday, March 6th 2012

  
  Louis Marchand is the French composer who has entered legend for a musical duel with J. S. Bach which he is supposed finally to have dodged.