Title: Guilty of the banality when Baroque goes bad.
Review: I must take exception to the 5-star rating previously given. This music suffers from the worst offense of baroque music, facile ornamentation. Too much of it lacks a center, a ground, and so sounds like a long drawn out series of flourishes (a la Telemann at his worst). When I first heard this album on the radio, I thought that my judgement of Biber based on his "Battle Music" was too harsh. I was wrong - I had heard one of the few pieces of any consequence. Almost all of this material is just simply trite.The performance can't be faulted. RFC plays with enthusiasm and creativity. They just picked mediocre material.If you are looking for a Danish pre-Bach baroque composer whose name starts with a "B," stick with Buxtehude: his string sonatas are deep, rich, and always revealing something new.
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