Warsaw-based musicologist Szymon Paczkowski is uniquely qualified to undertake the first comprehensive study of this subject. The author first describes the characteristic rhythmic and structural features of the dance and the affects associated with it, and traces how it came to be introduced into Germany.
Bach’s Use Of Polonaise Persuasively Explored Read More »
The world is throwing a grand anniversary party this year for one of the most deserving and long-overlooked artists in Baroque music, Georg Philipp Telemann. Everyone seems to be celebrating Telemann’s 250th Deathiversary: festivals, broadcasts, exhibitions, tributes, and tours are taking place from British Columbia to Australia.
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The Cleveland-based ensemble Les Délices focuses on an enticing selection of pieces: core Baroque genres, familiar French style, but repertoire far outside the typical offerings. As the liner notes point out, the composers here were among the last of their kind; this recording encapsulates the end of the Baroque era, and this moment in French history, in a series of rich, intricate works.
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The secret of the Boston Early Music Festival’s success is an ensemble framework that radiates from the centerpiece opera. “Le Carnaval de Venise” by André Campra provided not only a thematic focus for the festival but also the structural resources for many of its other events.
BEMF Animates Campra Opera-Ballet And More Read More »
Everyone can get a taste of Pergolesi’s easy way with the Baroque style on this new CD, which couples his “Stabat Mater” with two Bach cantatas in well-performed renderings by the British ensemble La Nuova Musica under the direction of David Bates.
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The Bach and Beethoven Ensemble is doing everything it can to attract audiences who know little about classical music and maybe even less about early music.
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There have been performances-a-plenty in such early music hotspots as Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Montreal, Washington, D.C., and Toronto, but how about Falmouth, Maine- population 11,185?
As Pants The Hart, As Ends The Month! Read More »
Churches, monasteries, theaters, and town squares reverberated with the sound of music: imported at first, the music gradually became more and more locally composed, performed by native and foreign-born musicians, enslaved or free.
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The Toronto-based quartet I Furiosi has delved into such wide-ranging topics as insanity, inebriation, lying, narcissism, hell, outer space, and much more. Their next concert, on April 17, cryptically titled “A Fork in the Road,” will be an ironic celebration of bad decisions through the ages.
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In central New Jersey and neighboring Pennsylvania, the early music consortium, Guild for Early Music, is celebrating Early Music Month 2017 with eleven events. Every weekend this month features at least two performances.
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