Separated by 350 years and an ocean apart, Cuban and Chilean songwriters in the 20th century used some of the same compositional devices as Monteverdi and Purcell. Tenor Nicholas Mulroy’s latest work connects the European Baroque with Latin America in a pleasing, ear-expanding album.
De Pasión Mortal: Latin Pop Meets Purcell Read More »
Entering its 38th year, Early Music Now is one of the nation’s premier presenters of Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music. Offering more than thirty performances this season, Early Music Now presents a subscription series of internationally renowned ensembles, a pay what you like series featuring professional Milwaukee-area musicians, a robust educational outreach program, and
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Early-music presenting organizations mostly hire touring ensembles. Yet many programs that foster the next generation focus on talented individual musicians. So Arizona Early Music created the Emerging Ensemble Residency, where a young group is set up with a mentor and works on both performance and the business of being a professional touring ensemble. The inaugural award goes to Montreal’s Le Consort laurentien, whose residency starts this month.
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Handel’s operas tell vivid stories in a complex, even idiosyncratic, manner that is not readily apparent even to a passionate Handelian. This brilliant book offers an eloquent account of the underlying processes at work, calling on broad examples — including classical literature, Shakespeare, novels, film — of the same narrative strategies.
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Featuring the much-anticipated return to Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 to celebrate Cantata Singers’ 60th anniversary, a first-ever regional tour, a commission and world premiere by composer Scott Perkins, and a two-concert Chamber Series at the French Library. Boston, MA —Under the direction of Music Director Noah Horn, Cantata Singers announces its 61st season. Four Main
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By now, we’re used to the astonishing insights gleaned by 19th-century classics performed in a historically informed style. Trio Ilona’s debut, in chamber music of Robert Schumann, adds yet more understanding. Their playing is at turns joyous, sparkling, and beautifully balanced.
Endlessly Satisfying Schumann from Trio Ilona Read More »
No one is born knowing how to sight-sing, but throughout history it’s been a necessary skill for good musicianship. ‘I find it extremely annoying to work with singers who can’t sight-read. It’s essential — right up there with being a good colleague and being easy to work with.’
Toil & Trouble: Sight-Reading for Success Read More »
Dresden’s Ensemble Polyharmonique made an outstanding recording of Heinrich Schütz’s rarely performed Easter oratorio ‘History of the Resurrection’ and follow up with an award-winning film. In music, dance, and dark atmosphere, they depict ‘a film-tale about love, faith, and the incomprehensible.’
A Film of Schütz’s ‘Resurrection’ for the 21st Century Read More »
Versailles, celebrating its 400th anniversary, attracts some seven million tourists each year. The Versailles Spectacles, a private corporation, sells millions of tickets to its deluxe entertainments: from fireworks and fountains to horse shows and DJ techno under the stars — and all of it helps subsidize the palace’s Opéra Royal.
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The latest recording from the ensemble Profeti della Quinta, founded and led by Elam Rotem, explores Rore’s lesser known first book of madrigals. Popular in their day, these were widely reprinted as vocal or instrumental pieces and used for teaching — but never recorded in their original four-voice setting till now.
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