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Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas — Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Miroslava Panayotova, piano — Con Brio

by Audiophile Audition | Nov 7, 2017 | Classical CD Reviews

Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas — Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Miroslava Panayotova, piano — Con Brio Recordings CBR21751, 80:00, **: Modern rendering of Baroque Chamber Music:  well performed, but… Baroque performance practice might be described as a number of things; a style, an anthropology, a philosophy, or even a set of rules. Since the late 1960s, there have been an increasing number of musicians, playing baroque music, who adhere to this “code,” even though reproducing music “as it was heard” at the time is impossible to do with any certainty. In a former life I read a bit of music philosophy (and philosophy of the arts) and came to the conclusion that playing music in Bach’s sound world, or in this case, George Frederick Handel’s sound world, was a legitimate pursuit. Beyond the choice of instruments, performance practice also dictated how to read a text, how to improvise and embellish with ornaments, and how to read various figures as rhetorical gestures. It was clear to me that there was more to this music beyond what was left on a page; there was a tradition and we had enough clues to suggest that the tradition might lead us to approach this music differently […]