Superb Italian Baroque Music
Kudos to ATMA for passing up the obvious marketing hook on this terrific recording of instrumental music by early-Baroque Italian composers. The hook? The composers were Jewish. The fact that the information is communicated in François Filiatrault’s excellent liner notes rather than in blazing copy on the cover says something about this classy production: it’s understated and beautiful— I could only imagine what a label like Dorian Sono Luminus would do in similar circumstances. This is a brilliant album, cleverly programmed and beautifully played.Eric Milnes, who led New York Baroque in Rossi’s Songs of Solomon on the now-defunct PGM label, is at the helm of La Bande Montréal. This is an ensemble of A-list players from a city which has supplanted Boston as the epicenter of North American early music. This is a winner!