On its new recording, ‘Folia,’ the ensemble’s comfort with the material shines through. The slower movements are graceful and expressive, the faster ones exciting.
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Chatham Baroque (above) and the presenting organization Renaissance & Baroque, which merged in 2018, are looking to build on the success of their first year together as they head into 2019-20 season.
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The Czech-born harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková (1927-2017) recounted her amazing life in ‘One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival,’ written with Wendy Holden.
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Community baroque orchestras that provide performing outlets for amateurs and professionals are on the ascent in North America.
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There are a lot of compelling and fascinating arguments for this kind of program featuring harpsichordist Rebecca Cypess and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang. Yet the recital justifies itself entirely on musical grounds.
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Martha Elliott is excellent in discussing how to read Baroque scores, closely comparing various published versions (including facsimile, early publication, 19th-century edition, and complete works edition) of a single piece.
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An interview with Jarrett — artistic director of Bach Akademie Charlotte, director of music at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel, resident conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, and music director of the Back Bay Chorale — about his new role with EMA.
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Fortepianist Eric Zivian and cellist Tanya Tomkins have led the Valley of the Moon Music Festival in California’s Sonoma Valley since 2014 with the mission of offering historically informed performances of Classical and Romantic music. The 2019 festival runs July 14-28.
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An opera by Agostino Steffani, performance of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ and concerts by Vox Luminus, Quicksilver, Stile Antico, Phoebe Carrai & Friends, and ACRONYM were among the highlights of the 2019 Boston Early Music Festival.
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