NYS Baroque Serves French Treats
After closing last year’s season with a magnificent presentation of the Monteverdi Vespers—one of the Ithaca community’s best classical musical events in years—the early music ensemble NYS Baroque, in its …
Francis in Philadelphia: The Sacred Roots of Classical Music
The visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia is of course a celebration, but its centerpiece is the heart of Catholic practice: a Mass. The Philadelphia Orchestra is honored to provide …
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Bitterroot Baroque set to open new concert season
Hamilton, MT – Bitterroot Baroque will open its 2015-2016 season of performances with a concert by Agave Baroque and the acclaimed countertenor Reginald Mobley on Sept. 25. Alex Shaffer, president …
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Reformation’s 500th Anniversary Through Bach
As the semi-millennial observances of the Protestant Reformation approach, Boston’s First Lutheran Church has announced a series of “Bach” Vespers services beginning next Saturday evening; these will also celebrate the …
Review: Baroque Orchestra opens season with spectacular Bach
Since 1990, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra has faced many challenges in its mission to establish a viable authentic instrument/period practice ensemble here on the West Coast. That it has survived …
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Gramophone Awards 2015 – the full report
This evening’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony will live long in the memory for many reasons, not least for the astounding display of virtuosity of this year’s Young Artist of …
William Christie’s ‘Musical Gardens’
A very unique festival in the gardens of a country house in Vendée, North-west France; a Baroque music festival in the open air, amid clipped hedges and plants, or on …
Sir David Willcocks (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015)
Choral conductor, organist and composer Sir David Willcocks died peacefully at home aged 95. Born in Newquay, Cornwall, Willcocks was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and music scholar at Clifton College, Bristol …
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‘Rewarding’ collaborations to enchant in Lully opera
How many arts organizations are needed to make an opera sing? In the case of the Opera Columbus production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide, it’s the more, the merrier. For the …
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Instrument maker goes for baroque
Craig Tomlinson got into harpsichord making while the getting was good. It was the 1970s. Baroque music was enjoying a revival and period instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries …