EMA FEATURES & PRESS RELEASES
Vibrato Wars
Many people think a peace treaty was signed after the vibrato wars of the 1970s, when the plush string textures of the modern symphony orchestra were challenged by the leaner sound of historical instruments. Eliminating vibrato, along with playing on gut strings, was the most noticeable mark of historically informed performance style. Before it was even called HIP, employing “authentic instruments” set early-music players apart from symphony orchestras, and singing with a pristine, boy-like sound marked a new vocal coloring.
If It’s Monday, It’s Collegium
The peripatetic and exhausting and fascinating and insanely fulfilling life of an early musician in America.
Cracking a Centuries-Old Tradition
A prof from Ohio guides collegiate singers in Cambridge, England, in the illuminating tuning system known as Just Intonation.
Viola da Gamba Dojo
John Mark Rozendaal combines Eastern and Western teaching techniques to introduce the viol to a wide range of learners.
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EMA RECORDING & BOOK REVIEWS
CD Review: Sonnambula Debuts With Duarte
The ensemble's impressive first disc promises and delivers the complete works of Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), the accomplished daughter of a prosperous Iberian converso jeweler who was resident in Antwerp.
CD Review: Sebastians Illuminate Vivaldi And Friends
On its new recording, 'Folia,' the ensemble’s comfort with the material shines through. The slower movements are graceful and expressive, the faster ones exciting.
CD Review: Kožená Electrifies In Dramatic Fare
Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená's first album on the Pentatone label centers on the protagonists of four tragic Baroque cantatas.
Book Review: Inspiring Profile In Courage
The Czech-born harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková (1927-2017) recounted her amazing life in 'One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival,' written with Wendy Holden.
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COMMUNITY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
(Boston January 4, 2023) The Handel and Haydn Society will perform Beethoven’s revolutionary Third Symphony, “Eroica,” January 20 + 22, 2023 at Symphony Hall. Led by Czech conductor Václav Luks, ...
Seattle, WA ‑ Early Music Seattle is thrilled to present an original program, Six Dresden Concertos with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra directed by Alexander Weimann along with concert master Rachell ...
Alkemie presents “Call Me Marie: Fables from Marie de France” Alkemie continues its 2022-2023 season with a new program based on the fables told by a 12th-century woman who pen-named ...
Hopkinson Smith: Bright & Early The “supreme poet of the lute” (Gramophone) creates a subtle, intimate dialogue between Dalza and Spinacino, witnesses of the instrument’s flourishing culture in Italy at ...
Ran Blake, a jazz improvisation teacher of mine, once told me that when we meet the right people to play with we should never leave them. I am so fortunate ...
