‘New Perspectives on Handel’s Music: Essays in Honour of Donald Burrows’ is a brilliant miscellany of fascinating perspectives. The 20 contributors cover the composer’s music and creative practices, his sources and documents, and the context and reception of his hefty body of work.
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For his latest recording, theorbist Stafano Maiorana imagines two composers from Venice, active 350 years apart — Kapsberger and Ambrosini — in secret conversation in and about about La Serenissima.
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There’s much to learn about period instrument via the sounds they’re capable of making. Composers today are exploring the edges of historical performance practice in fresh and unexpected ways.
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Music from one mountain range has inspired music-making in another. Taking a cue from the Italian and Austrian Alps, two founders of Baroque Music Montana have just released their first recording. Violinist Carrie Krause and theorbist John Lenti capture their home state’s wild beauty.
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In 1539, inexplicably, a book of Latin polyphony from Catholic Milan was published by a Protestant publisher in Strasbourg. This mystery book’s contents, by masters from Gombert and Willaert to more shadowy composers, includes premiere recordings and delightful, standout music.
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