in New Jersey. Toth has performed on all the different types of keyboard instruments in use during the Baroque period and employs the principles of fingering, articulation, and phrasing... period instrument ensemble ARTEK which has recorded Monteverdi's Orfeo on the Lyrichord Early Music Series label .Toth's recording conveys ample offsets. First, the use of a lautenwerk...-harpsichord), he could have he owned two of them. Such instruments, called by different names, existed in all countries during the Baroque, though Germany seems to be where...

first American recording. Toth's fine period-instrument ensemble lets the music dance and breathe, yet her expansive, almost Romantic conception of the piece sacrifices no emotional... period instrument group, preceded the taping with four staged performances in New York. The orchestra is tuned in quarter comma meantone, and many of the singers, most of whom... Toth and ARTEK, a New York City-based ensemble of period instruments, bring vivid theatricality to this intoxicating, bittersweet confection of pastoral longing and vanity...

the Artek period instrument ensemble in New York, plays with energy, spirit and scholarship. Soprano Jessica Tranzillo sings introductory plainchants in a sweet voice that floats... York's period instrument ensemble ARTEK, who brings to her task a compelling blend of warmth, compassion and majesty. The inclusion of soprano Jessica Tranzillo, singing bits... angelically in the resonant brick church. A well-chosen overview of Scheidemann's work, the album demonstrates the value of performing the composer's music on an instrument made for its...