Josh Lee has begun holding individual sessions for budding viol players eager to improve their skills and possibly enter the profession. This summer, Lee welcomed four musicians to his home in Jacksonville, Florida, for intensive lessons and conversations about the gamba, early music, and life in the field.
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Kleine Kammermusik’s CD, Fanfare and Filigree: Chamber Music from Paris and Dresden, is an evocative collection of attractive pieces for oboes, recorders, bassoon, and continuo by six composers active in those cities between 1692 and the 1740s.
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The Spanish ensemble Tasto Solo plays with wonderful sensitivity, whether in the somewhat straightforward arrangements or in their charming improvisational approach to the grounds. One could easily imagine that if someone in Henry VIII’s court had played these instruments as well as these musicians, they might not have disappeared so quickly.
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Aage Nielsen has served as an adjunct professor of music at the College of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University, as well as the bass clarinetist with the Boise Philharmonic for 23 seasons, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony for 11 seasons. He was the founder and director of the collaborative chamber ensemble Darkwood Consort for 19 seasons and performed
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The Handel and Haydn Society, absent from the Boston Symphony’s summer home since 1997, will perform Purcell’s “The Fairy-Queen” on Aug. 9, with artistic director Harry Christophers conducting and his daughter, “Game of Thrones” actress Antonia Christophers, narrating.
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