
Georg Philipp Telemann was a consummate master of various national musical styles, from Italian to French to his own German, a point emphatically emphasized in
If you know Philippe Herreweghe’s excellent recording of Bach’s Ascension oratorio (Harmonia Mundi) you’ll immediately notice that this one from Bethlehem, PA is significantly brighter,
For the past 10 years the early music ensemble Terra Nova Consort has been in residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and as such has
We haven’t heard from soprano Custer LaRue for awhile, but it’s certainly a treat to hear her again, doing what she does best. That is,
Alexander Borodin’s Second String Quartet has vastly superceded the First in popularity. Musicologists tend to bemoan this fact, citing the earlier work’s greater compositional ingenuity.
Anthony DiLorenzo arranged this suite of highlights from his full-length Dracula ballet for the ensemble Proteus 7. Primarily a brass ensemble (of which DiLorenzo is
From the first few seconds of this new recording from Brian Jones and his Trinity Choir, you know it’s Christmas. The flute and bell sounds,
The cover pictures three guys with snowballs, and the opening sentence of the liner notes is: “I made the wrists long,” she explained. If you
As if to immediately dispel any notion that Bach’s Art of Fugue is merely a theoretical educational work, Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy
Masques, a Montreal-based early music trio (baroque violin, bass viol, chamber organ) was the grand prize winner in the Dorian-Early Music America Recording Competition, and