Evanston:  viola d’amore

 


      Most classical music album covers are pretty much the same.

        This one isn’t.  Obviously.

        I was flipping through a magazine about recently released classical recordings when it stopped me.

        Googling I learned that Helene Plouffe is Canadian; and that the viola d’amore is an instrument, usually with fourteen strings, played beneath the chin, as are its near relations the violin and the viola.

        Going to iTunes I saw that the album includes pieces by Telemann, Bach, von Biber, and three others whose work I did not know.

        I bought it for the originality of the cover.

        If you enjoy Baroque, the music is good, too.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

 
 

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