The Australian Chamber Orchestra has acquired its fourth ‘Golden Age’ string instrument: a violin made in 1590 by Antonio and Hieronymus Amati. The violin, whose purchase was enabled by an AU$1 million investment from the Australian industry super fund Media Super, will be played by ACO violinist Ike See.
Australian Chamber Orchestra Instrument Fund acquires Brothers Amati violin Read More »
Washington, DC-based Opera Lafayette presents the original 1720 version of Handel’s ‘Radamisto’ Feb. 5 in DC and Feb. 7 in New York.
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Yi-heng Yang and Kate Bennett Wadsworth are not the first modern musicians to record Brahms’ Cello Sonatas on period instruments — in this case an 1875 Streicher piano and a gut-strung cello played without endpin. But they are the first to do so while attempting to revive late 19th-century performance practice.
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Joan Benson has had a formidable career as a recording artist, teacher, pedagogue, and published author. Now, at 93, her prolific performing career is once again visible to the masses through this collection: a two-CDd set of works culled from her live performances and studio albums spanning 40 years.
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In announcing the 2019-20 season, the Handel and Haydn Society is also announcing that Artistic Director Harry Christophers, currently in his 10th season as artistic director, will step down from his role with the organization following the 2020-21 season.
