The Bach Society of Minnesota was “HIP” before it was hip. “HIP” stands for “historically informed performance” — i.e., doing it darn close to the way it was played back …
Bach Society is a must-go at Twin Cities Early Music Festival Read More »
Bach doesn’t care how many Twitter followers you have – if you steal his fugues, the grandfather of counterpoint will come back to haunt you. Lady Gaga used an eight-second …
The Lady Gaga Fugue and other incredible Baroque-inspired arrangements of pop songs Read More »
Schubert and Handel at Severance. Mozart and Bach at Blossom. Between the Cleveland Orchestra’s two programs this weekend, there’s no overlap beyond Haydn with principal cellist Mark Kosower. Lucky for …
What the critics are saying about conductor Nicholas McGegan Read More »
The bare, resonant walls of Tacoma’s Christ Episcopal Church will ring with the lush polyphony of 16th-century Spain this weekend as professional early music vocal group Canonici both leads a …
Canonici offers early music workshop, free concert at Christ Episcopal Read More »
Musica Sonora, Tucson’s only professional early music ensemble, will perform its final concert on Sunday, ending a run that goes back decades and draws its roots to the University of …
Alan Curtis, who has died aged 80, was a harpsichordist, musicologist and pioneer in the restoration of Baroque music who brought some of the earliest known operas from the specialist …
Last night the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall saw the annual Distinguished Artist Series recital for the American Bach Soloists (ABS) Festival 2015. The featured soloist was John …
‘Distinguished artist’ John Thiessen surveys the Baroque trumpet repertoire Read More »
The free Gramophone Awards Shortlist 2015 digital magazine contains the complete original reviews of each of the 72 recordings shortlisted for Gramophone Awards this year. Once again, the Instrumental category …
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2015 Nominations Announced Read More »
Just because a group invokes Bach in its very name doesn’t mean there isn’t room for it to explore the music of other composers. The American Bach Soloists proved the …
Saint Thomas Church is heartbroken by the sudden death of John Scott, Organist and Director of Music, on Wednesday, August 12. John returned to New York on August 11 after …