Composers: Satie, Rameau, Marais, Rossi, Uccellini, Erlebach
Performers: Latitude 37
Catalogue Number: latitude37baroque.com

You’ll have a hard time tearing me away from Latitude 37’s new release: it’s the best album I’ve heard all year. I hadn’t expected to unearth such a treasure in X. The album art seemed curious, comical, and a little country and western: our musicians Julia Fredersdorff (baroque violin), Donald Nicolson (harpsichord and organ), and Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba and lirone) are pictured in black and white before a bucking horse or holding instruments in a dusty barn. But, while this old-time theme appeared ambitious, I listened to the...