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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CD REVIEW: English Concert’s C.P.E. Bach Sparkles Anew
A listener could enjoy this disc for years without ever finding out (or caring) that it is a reissue of a 1979 Archiv LP. Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert’s contributions to early music and historically-informed performance are now the stuff of textbooks, yet nearly 40 years later these performances continue to crackle with energy and insight.
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Pokorny Brothers Go For Baroque And More
The Pokorny brothers — Romaric, Corentin, and Emmeran — are deeply embedded in the musical life of Seattle and surrounding areas.
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Thank You for Joining Us in Bloomington!
As the temperatures rose in Bloomington (IN) last week, local audiences poured into cool interiors for EMA’s Young Performers Festival and Emerging Artists Showcase.
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Orpheus Brought To Blazing Life
Tenor Karim Sulayman and the Cleveland-based ensemble Apollo’s Fire under Jeannette Sorrell’s direction run the historical/stylistic gamut with emotional engagement and technical aplomb.
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Carolina Music Museum Makes Its Debut
The museum, located in Greenville, SC, opens officially March 27 with “Facing South: Keyboard Instruments in the Carolinas,” an exhibit focusing on 27 instruments associated with the Carolinas between 1700 and 1860.
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Vibrant Treatment Of Monteverdi Works
This new release from conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble contains fifteen of Monteverdi’s works from the “Selva morale e spirituale”: several of the hymns, psalms, motets, and madrigals, alongside settings of portions of the Credo.
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Catacoustic Consort Welcomes Theorbo
The tale of transporting a six-foot-long, unwieldy member of the lute family from its maker in the United Kingdom to its new home in Cincinnati was almost worthy of a John le Carré spy novel.
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Happy 350th, François!
Birthday concerts are planned around the world to celebrate François Couperin, whose voluminous catalog of harpsichord music will have a prominent place amid performances of many of his other works.
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Love & Lust With Voice & Viol
Elizabeth Hungerford and Andrew Arceci’s album “Love & Lust” presents a Caccini song alongside 14 others, carefully arranged for her soprano and his bass viol.
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