Jazz versions of top Baroque and other melodies. This disc was recorded live at the 2015 Festival Muskdorf Ernen in Switzerland. Du Plessis has chosen baroque works by Bach, Gluck, Vivaldi and Handel and ends with a six-movement jazz suit and a closing track of Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm theme. Du Plessis sort of continues the efforts of the ”Play...

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Recorded 9-11 February 2014, these realizations of the two Brahms string sextets share with us a profound and often melancholy – and contrapuntal – intimacy. The Quatuor Sine Nomine opens with the 1865 G Major Sextet, composed in the spirit of “atonement” for a failed engagement between Brahms and Agathe von Siebold, daughter of a university p...

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Harp virtuoso Anais Gaudemard shines in three concerted masterpieces for the instrument with various ensembles. Harp virtuoso Anais Gaudemard (b. 1991) loves the harp “because of all we ignore about it…a limitless instrument.” The three works Gaudemard has recorded are “among the most beautiful ever written for that instrument and…reveal its sou...

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