Archive for Early Music America
Early Music America Has a Rave for Stylus Phantasticus!
Early Music America has a new rave review for Pacific MusicWorks and Tekla Cunningham’s Stylus Phantasticus album: “There’s a passage in Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Violin Sonata No. 4, the central work in his Sonatae unarum fidium, that both meets and defies expectations. The violin melody hovers over soft organ chords, knotting itself in quick mordents before rushing downwards in a wild frenzy. Yet there is always a sense of songlike expressivity, the musical line present even in…