Celebrate Early Music Day 2019!
Join early music fans throughout the glove on this international day devoted to the love and enjoyment of early music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: “Laß, Fürsten, laß noch einen Strahl” from Trauerode, BWV 198
I’ve been in love with this cantata for at least 20 years. For me, it rates alongside any of the composer’s other work (it also constitutes some of the music Bach re-used in his Markus-Passion). I directed it at Indiana University in April 2015, and it will open the Washington Bach Consort’s 2019-2020 season in
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Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto-en-Suite, TWV 51:F4
Here is a side of Telemann we rarely see, and one that those of us who know him through his recorder sonatas or flute fantasias may not have dreamed possible. This concerto-en-suite was a gift from Telemann to his life-long friend Pisendel, concertmaster of the famed Dresden Hofkapelle, the most admired orchestra in Europe. Written
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2019 Howard Mayer Brown Award
Early Music America is excited to announce Lyle Nordstrom as the recipients of the 2018 Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music.
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2019 Thomas Binkley Award
Early Music America is pleased to announce Eric Rice as the recipient of the 2019 Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a university or college early music ensemble. This award is named for the legendary lutenist and educator Thomas Binkley, who taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, made
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