Perhaps more than any other Mozart opera, ‘Don Giovanni’ lends itself to an extremely wide range of cultural, psychological, and aesthetic interpretations. In his new book, ‘Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth,’ Richard Will examines approaches from the past 125 years through recordings and videos, tracing stylistic changes as well as how the anti-hero is inevitably seen as a mirror of ourselves.
Listening Anew to ‘Don Giovanni’ Read More »
Los Angeles-based viola da gamba player Lucy Jones, the go-to seismologist after a California earthquake, is turning her scientific renown towards a bigger crisis. ‘Tempo: Music for Climate Action’ uses music to depict the science of climate change.
The Earthquake Lady and her Viol: Sounding the Climate Alarm Read More »
Baroque violinist and composer Rebecca Scout Nelson is also a singer with a warmly expressive voice and a songwriter of joy and acute melancholy. Her compelling debut album taps historically informed music-making from two distinct yet complementary traditions.
Beauty and Sadness Meet in Rebecca Scout Nelson’s Folk-Baroque Read More »
The latest installment of ‘Early Music: the Americas’ explores the life and impact of an important Cuban musician from the later 18th century, Esteban Salas. As a composer, pedagogue, and priest, Salas left a huge output of music, but research and performances are still lagging far behind.
Esteban Salas and a Start of Cuban Music Read More »
In a remarkable find, cellist Elinor Frey and her Accademia de’ Dissonanti introduce the chamber music of Jean Baur, known as a pioneering harpist in the later 18th c. and a composer of great elegance and charm. They offer sonatas (solo or with continuo) for cello and for harp.
Jean Baur, Where Have You Been? Read More »
