Incantare is a chamber ensemble of Baroque violins and sackbuts (early trombones) whose members are some of the most highly regarded players in the nation, touring throughout the United States and abroad. The sextet has assembled a unique program exploring the continuities and influences between Jewish and non-Jewish music and musicians in Renaissance and early […]
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Buffalo’s two early music ensembles join forces to celebrate Women‘s History Month, Early Music Month, and Bach’s Birthday on the Kleinhans Centerstage 3/29 Come celebrate Early Music Month and Women’s History Month with one of the few true all-female choirs in the nation! The Women of Vivaldi will toast the birthday of one of the
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REIMAGINING, REINVENTING, REDEFINING EARLY MUSIC: Berkeley Festival & Exhibition of early music (BFX) returns in June 2022 for eight days of the best in historically-informed performance June 5–12, 2022. The San Francisco Early Music Society presents the 17th biennial Festival—the first since 2018 One of the nation’s leading organizations for the advancement of historically informed
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BEMF presents Juilliard415 with guest conductor Paul Agnew performing works by C.P.E. Bach—March 26 in Harvard Square and premiering online on April 8 ARTIST: Juilliard415Paul Agnew, conductor Kyle Miller, baritone WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 2022First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Virtual Premiere: Friday, April 8, 2022 at 8pm ETAvailable until Friday, April 22,
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Amherst Early Music and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute have long embraced musicians ranging from enthusiasts to professionals. These two programs, similar in many regards, serve a range of abilities and interests, and both of them got their start a half a century ago.
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Boston Baroque welcomes in-person audiences at GBH’s Calderwood Studio in Boston and streaming audiences around the world for the program featuring soloists Elena Villalón and Rufus Müller BOSTON, MA—Boston Baroque’s 21-22 Season continues with an exultant concert featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day at GBH’s Calderwood Studio. The performances will take
Tempesta di Mare continues its 20th anniversary season with programs: Artist Recital: Founders’ Picks, Season XX: Chamber (available On-Demand from Feb 20 – Mar 19), and the mainstage Season XX: Orchestra form a three-program focus from Tempesta di Mare’s twenty years of rediscovery and championing rarely played masterworks that continues to the present day. Artist
Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, continues their innovative Turning Points season with their first in-person performance of 2022, An Uncommon Chevalier, on March 27th. This concert features two of America’s leading baroque violinists, Cynthia Roberts and Elizabeth Blumenstock, playing Bologne and Mozart’s sparkling violin concertos. The program concludes with Haydn’s spirited “The Hen”
The star of Luisa Morales’ uniformly excellent recording isn’t the performer or the repertoire, it’s the keyboard instrument: a hybrid with a lower manual on which the strings are plucked and an upper manual where the strings are struck by hammers. The sound is sweet with plenty of expressive nuance.
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Boston Early Music Festival presents the legendary viol virtuoso Jordi Savall and his ensemble Le Concert des Nations performing music from Baroque Versailles—February 25 in Harvard Square and premiering online on March 11 ARTIST: Jordi Savall & Le Concert des NationsManfredo Kraemer, violinCharles Zebley, flutePhilippe Pierlot, 7-string bass violRolf Lislevand, theorboMarco Vitale, harpsichordJordi Savall, 7-string
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