These colorful and beautifully crafted Sonate a violino e basso o cembalo (Sonatas for Solo Violin and Basso Continuo) by Carlo Zuccari, written just three years before the death of Bach, are appearing on CD for the first time. If you like the trio sonatas of Handel, you’ll no doubt enjoy...

This disc of trio sonatas and duos for cello and violin has been in my CD player many times since I first listened to it several weeks ago. With the sheer joie de vivre of both the performances and the music itself, it’s one of those discs that you can always count on to lift your...

I can state with absolute certainly that you have never before heard these Chamber Airs for Violin (and Thorough Bass) from 1735 by Richard Jones. I can also say with equal certainty that, if you enjoy exploring the byways of baroque chamber music, you are going to take very great pleasure in...

The title of this one-of-a-kind collection of music from the German Accent label is: “Ciacconas, Canzonas & Sonatas – Violin music from the collection ‘Partiturbuch Ludwig’ (1662)”. This “Partiturbuch” or “Score Book” is a collection of manuscripts that were gathered...

It is hard to know where to start praising this recording. The music? The instrument? The performance? The music, by three masters of the early baroque – Giovanni Kapsperger, Bellerofonte Castaldi and Alessandro Piccinini – is fascinating. Especially how each of the three roughly...