This book provides new insights into how benefit performances “for musicians, composers and singers became an integral part of the commercial music business during the eighteenth century.” Little has changed in the music world since that time.
Book Review: Tracing The British Roots Of Benefit Performances Read More »
The trials that the Lyon Académie experienced are strikingly resonant with the onslaught of crises we face in 2020 as musicians, musical organizations, and the world at large navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, social and political upheaval, and economic recession.
Plague, Revolt, Opera: Lessons From A Bankrupt Opera House In 17th-Century France Read More »
New Trinity Baroque performs ‘Membra Jesu nostri,’ seven interrelated cantatas each describing a part of the body of the crucified Jesus (thus: feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart, and face).
CD Review: Buxtehude Cycle Continues To Touch The Heart Read More »
“Gli equivoci nel sembiante” makes a very pleasant impression on the Canadian label Musica Omnia’s well-engineered new recording featuring Capella Intima, Gallery Players of Niagara, and Nota Bene Baroque Players.
CD Review: Early Scarlatti Opera Handsomely Done Read More »
Avery Amereau’s debut solo recording, a collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan, covers Handel’s music for star operatic altos of both sexes.
CD: Rising Contralto Triumphs In Handel Arias Read More »
