“Play the music the way it goes.” Sounds simplistic, but it implies that the student has studied the performance traditions and practices of the music; mastered the techniques; and then allows all that to stay in the background and plays from the heart.
Center Stage, October 2017: Lenora McCroskey Read More »
“Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter’ is an album as beautifully performed as it is researched, and one can only hope that more “anonymous” works get such attention.
Borgia Daughter’s Motets Receive Glowing Attention Read More »
Jane Glover: “I happen to think that the MOB Chorus is the best chamber choir in North America. Actually, I would say that about the orchestra, too. I think it is the best chamber orchestra in North America. It’s thrilling to be part of.”
Glover Savors Bond With Music Of The Baroque Read More »
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.
Artistic Indulgences Performed With Panache Read More »
Presenting the rising stars of early music and historical performance since 2018. The Emerging Artists Showcase has been presented at early-music festivals in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington, IN, and Boston, MA,
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Early Music America (EMA) proudly presented pre-college and collegiate early-music ensembles throughout North America since 2011. The Young Performers Festival has beeh presented at early-music festivals in Berkeley, CA, Bloomington,
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Kleine Kammermusik’s CD, Fanfare and Filigree: Chamber Music from Paris and Dresden, is an evocative collection of attractive pieces for oboes, recorders, bassoon, and continuo by six composers active in those cities between 1692 and the 1740s.
Ensemble Sounds Notes Of Triumph and Elegance Read More »
The members of Ensemble Correspondances seem to get everything right in Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers: easily swinging inégales, perfectly weighted appogiature, crisp articulation of text, and overall dramatic impersonation.
French Ensemble Scales Heights in La Descente Read More »
Anyone unfamiliar with the festival might be surprised to learn that its programs also encompass a healthy dose of 19th, 20th, and even 21st-century works. Put simply, Bach is the foundation, but the festival builds a musical house on him of many colors, styles, and periods.
Carmel Bach Festival Performs Balancing Act Read More »
