Each year on April 13, Our Lady’s Choral Society and the Dublin Handelian Orchestra commemorate the first performance of ‘Messiah’ with an hour-long version of the oratorio on Fishamble Street in front of the spot where the concert hall once stood that presented the 1742 premiere.
Handel’s Messiah Still Reigns In Dublin Read More »
At the fore of this antiquarian revival was Wolfgang Zuckermann, a German-born Jew who fled to the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power, worked as a child psychologist and piano technician and, in 1959, developed a build-it-yourself harpsichord kit that brought this once-obscure instrument into thousands of homes from North America to Australia.
Wolfgang Zuckermann, whose DIY kit fueled a harpsichord revival, dies at 96 Read More »
Fans of early music have a new addition to their weekend radio lineup. Early Music Now with Sara Schneider is a new one-hour program showcasing music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque: from sonorous medieval chant and polyphony to delightful renaissance madrigals, dances, and consort music to magnificent baroque cantatas and keyboard music.
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While most string players in modern symphony orchestras use synthetic strings made of steel or nylon, baroque violinist Andrew Fouts — an artistic director of Chatham Baroque — special orders gut strings from a small shop in Minnesota.
Baroque music: It’s music with (sheep, cow, mongolian horse and mammoth) guts Read More »
The sheer joy that cellist Jaap ter Linden and fortepianist David Breitman describe in the liner notes about getting to play this music with each other is on display throughout the album.
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