Buyers should note that the Swedish pun in this album's title doesn't work in English; the title Barocking Together suggests a Baroque-rock fusion, but this is a program of straight Baroque music, mostly by Bach. Further, of the four Bach flute sonatas on the program, one (the Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031) is probably by C.P.E. Bach, and another is a partially lost work completed by a later (and unnamed) composer. With these cautions out of the way, this music is a lot of fun. Sweden's BIS label has made an ...
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Buyers should note that the Swedish pun in this album's title doesn't work in English; the title Barocking Together suggests a Baroque-rock fusion, but this is a program of straight Baroque music, mostly by Bach. Further, of the four Bach flute sonatas on the program, one (the Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031) is probably by C.P.E. Bach, and another is a partially lost work completed by a later (and unnamed) composer. With these cautions out of the way, this music is a lot of fun. Sweden's BIS label has made an international impact with its stable of brilliantly talented and charismatic young instrumentalists, of whom the Israeli-born flutist Sharon Bezaly is one. Mostly Bezaly and her associates have been deployed in attractive virtuoso works of the early twentieth century, displaced from the repertory by a tight-lipped arrogance that disguised itself as musical modernism. This disc of Baroque pieces is unusual in the BIS catalog and announces a desire to compete with specialists in the...
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