Rating: 3/5
Review:
Rather uninspiring
I'm afraid I found this a little uninspiring. It's decent music in pretty good
performances, but no more.
Pedrini is a little-known composer who turns out to have had
an interesting life, spending a significant period as a court musician to the
Chinese Emperor in the early 18th century. Sadly, I didn't find all that much of
interest in his music; it is perfectly listenable and quite technically
challenging at times, but I don't find anything like the melodic or harmonic
invention of, say, Vivaldi or Corelli and it's not in anything like the same
league as Handel or Bach.
Joyce Lindorff and Nancy Wilson deal pretty well with the
technical challenges of the music, but for me it never really catches fire or
speaks to me emotionally. This is partly
due to the music itself, but I often find the playing a little stiff and
uninspired, too.
Lindorff and Wilson deserve praise for bringing obscure
music to a wider audience. I admire the
intent, but the overall result is a little lacklustre in both content and
execution and I can only give this a very qualified recommendation.
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