Period Ensembles Alive And Well
The outlines of North America’s exciting landscape of period-instrument ensembles are taking shape as the 2019-2020 season unfolds.
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Book Review: Entrancing Guide To Singing Early Music
Martha Elliott is excellent in discussing how to read Baroque scores, closely comparing various published versions (including facsimile, early publication, 19th-century edition, and complete works edition) of a single piece.
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Third Coast Baroque Awakens Handel Rarity
The composer’s first oratorio, ‘Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno,’ will be performed April 12 and 13 in the original 2¾-hour version that premiered in 1707 with Arcangelo Corelli as concertmaster.
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2019 Laurette Goldberg Award
Early Music America is pleased to announce Nina Stern and S’Cool Sounds as recipients of the 2019 Laurette Goldberg Award for lifetime achievement in early music outreach and/or educational projects for children or adults by ensembles and individual artists. The Laurette Goldberg Award is named for Laurette Goldberg, the extraordinary teacher, performer, author, and founder of
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Early Music On-The-Air
This Early Music Month, Early Music America applauds the work of terrestrial radio and streaming audio broadcasters who see the value in providing a home for early music.
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Book Review: Listening to Bach
Daniel R. Melamed’s book packs quite a wallop. In fewer than 150 pages, it provides enlightening insights along with provocative, even unsettling, commentary regarding two of the most celebrated — and challenging — compositions to issue from the pen of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Celebrating The Baroque In Colorado
It might come as something of a surprise that Denver is home to the 14-year-old Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. More than a mere regional outpost, it has built a national reputation as a first-rate period-instrument ensemble.
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Academy of Sacred Drama Exalts Moses
The organization’s 2018-19 season has been styled “The Year of Moses.” To that end, artistic director Jeremy Rhizor has found three oratorios and an evening’s worth of cantatas celebrating the man who parted the Red Sea.
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CD REVIEW: Ah, Venice! Notes The Gonzaga Band
What a treat it is to have a new album from the British ensemble the Gonzaga Band that contains not one but seven world premieres as exciting as they are excellent.
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CD REVIEW: Hallelujah For Handel Arias
The origins of these works in private musicking, the spare accompaniment, and the musicians’ sensitive interplay make this a thoroughly intimate affair.
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