EMA seeks presentations proposals for the 2025 EMA Virtual Summit. The Summit will be presented online October 17-19 with select hybrid events in Montréal on Friday, October 17. Early Music America encourages approaches that present early music from around the world within their historical and cultural contexts – Global Early Musics. Special Call: EMA invites […]
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A champion of under-performed 18-century treasures for cello, Elinor Frey’s latest recording is high in virtuosity and appeal. As the cover suggests, she has two instruments at her disposal: one a standard Strad-model cello, the other a 3/4 size cello that allows several of the works to really sing.
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North America’s First Permanent Baroque Orchestra Hits a Half-Century Milestone. Anniversary Season features a roster of all-star soloists, including Susanna Phillips, Tamara Mumford, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Amanda Forsythe, William Burden, Nicholas Phan, Sidney Outlaw, and more BOSTON, MA—Boston Baroque is delighted to celebrate its 50th Anniversary Season with both concerts and events at NEC’s Jordan
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Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will present a lavish polychoral concert of music by Venetian masters Claudio Monteverdi, Andrea Gabrieli and Giovanni Gabrieli. Â
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This week, Seattle-based Pacific MusicWorks, for their upcoming season finale (May 20 and 21), will give the world premiere of a new musical completion of the finale scene that appeared at the end of the originally published libretto for Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Combining sung and danced performance, this alternate ending is the work of Stephen Stubbs, the lutenist, conductor, and the founder and artistic director of Pacific MusicWorks, with choreography by Baroque dance specialist Anna Mansbridge.
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Tempesta di Mare concludes its 20th anniversary season with the orchestral concerts of its three-program focus, Season XX. The program, Season XX: Orchestra features works from Tempesta di Mare’s past twenty years of rediscoveries by Fasch, Reutter and Janitsch, plus a colorful orchestral suite by Telemann. Season XX: Orchestra will be performed in-person on May
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The co-production with Philharmonia Baroque features Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role alongside Daniela Mack, Amanda Forsythe, and Camille Ortiz.
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Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire, based in Cleveland, seek the themes that unite diverse cultures in “O Jerusalem!,” an intriguing new recording that explores folk, religious, and high-art traditions. These live recordings, arranged from traditional sources and played with fire and reverence, offers a musical tour through each of the city’s four neighborhoods.
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‘The Baroque Violin & Viola’ provides an important introduction to Baroque violin playing for the modern violin and viola student, in 50 highly detailed lessons. The book is a rich collection of ideas, techniques, insights, and sources compiled and interpreted by the author during a teaching career of 30 years as professor of Baroque violin.
The Oakland-based Cantata Collective opens its Bach series with a sampling of the solo-cantata repertoire in an engaging, intimate setting of one-to-a-part performances. This rewarding new disc features two gifted singers and Nic McGegan at the keyboard.
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