EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
(Re)Discovering Boston Baroque’s New Music Director
At the end of April, French conductor Marc Minkowski was named Boston Baroque's second-ever music director, following the retirement of founder Martin Pearlman. EMA caught up with the marquee early-music conductor to hear his thoughts on the future of the ensemble and where he sees areas of strength and growth.
The New York Baroque Dance Company at 50
The New York Baroque Dance Co. and its co-founder, Catherine Turocy, celebrate a half-century of bringing historical dance to stages across America and Europe. They've set the high standard for Baroque dance performed in the U.S.
Be Smart on A.I. or Get Left Behind
In music, we typically absorb emerging high-tech when it's useful to us, from MIDI to digital editing. Artificial intelligence presents an unparalleled challenge and unlocks potential that strains the imagination. What's clear is that the best output from a modern A.I. tool occurs when you already have subject matter expertise.
From the Archive: Castrati, Contraltos, Countertenors
Since our current early-music revival began in the mid-20th century, countertenors and mezzo-sopranos or contraltos have waged an undeclared war over which vocal type best replicates the great castrati voices of the 18th century. We look at several enduring recordings that spotlight this putative dispute.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
Wailing Women and Italian Convents
Throughout European history, the lament has been associated with women. The outstanding Cappella Artemisia, led by Candace Smith, turns its attention to this mournful weeping and the Italian convents of the 16th and 17th c.
Enchanting Sounds from Baroque Music Montana
The newest recording from Baroque Music Montana collects sacred and profane love songs and virtuosic instrumental works from the early Baroque. With soprano, violin, dulcian, and lute, it makes an unfamiliar, often enchanting, combination and sets their sound apart.
Reviving Bach’s Lautenwerk
At his death, J.S. Bach owned two mellow-toned keyboard instruments called lautenwerk or lute-harpsichord, and wrote (and transcribed) music for it. Charlotte Mattax Moersch's latest recording is devoted to this unique but forever-obscure instrument, including a Bach original and transcriptions by her teacher, Gustav Leonhardt.
A Fresh Goldbergs from Colorado
There's no shortage of recent transcriptions of the 'Goldberg Variations,' but the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, led by harpsichordist Frank Nowell, offers its own distinct take on J.S. Bach's beloved masterpiece.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Tempesta di Mare, the award-winning Philadelphia Baroque orchestra, today announces the appointment of Juan Gallastegui as its new Managing Director, effective May 22, 2026. Gallastegui succeeds Ulrike Shapiro after twenty ...
Published in 2026 to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Couperin, the Louis Couperin 400 series from Lyrebird Music presents substantially revised and expanded editions of the ...
CSEM presents Arrow Quartet with a Classical program : Viennese Impressions: String Quartets from the Age of Enlightenment Cambridge Society for Early Music presents Arrow Quartet, an up-and-coming string quartet ...
American Classical Orchestra Performs Season Finale Featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 And Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” At Alice Tully Hall on May 5 Soloist is Pianist Matthew Figel ...
Sarasa Ensemble retraces the Bach family tree in ‘All in the Family’ program May 8-10, 2026 “Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love ...
