About Baroque / Van Der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester

Release Date: 02/13/2007
Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog #: 905187 Spars Code: n/a
Composer: Benjamin Schweitzer, Nadir Vassena, Michel Van der Aa, Juliane Klein, ...
Conductor: Gottfried Von der Goltz
Orchestra/Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

"What ultimately emerges from “About Baroque” is a sense of the old-instrument world as a different kind of compositional resource, not so much a repository either of new sounds or of old resonances but a musical culture of its own. The raw materials here are a peculiarly hyper-responsive kind of ensemble playing and listening, a trained facility in making a score “work” without comprehensive instructions and a shared conviction of the essential physicality of performance. These aren’t qualities confined to early-music players, but they are to be found more often among the best early-music players than just about anywhere else, and their attraction to adventurous composers must be obvious." - Michelle Dulak Thomson, The New York Times, Read more 3,25,2007 Read less