Working with Le Concert des Nations, a period-instrument orchestra he founded in 1989, Jordi Savall clearly believes he is rediscovering these works in some sense by performing them in a historically informed manner.
CD Review: Savall Puts Stamp On Beethoven Symphonies Read More »
Christopher Macklin discovered the Marian hymn ‘Stella celi extirpavit’ as a graduate vocal student while delving into the idea of plague and pestilence.
‘Save Us From The Plague,’ Pleads 15th-Century Hymn Read More »
Musicians have been hit especially hard financially by the coronavirus outbreak because many are freelancers who earn money concert by concert and cannot count on full-time salaries or benefits such as health insurance.
How Period Musicians View The Pandemic Read More »
To mark the 250th anniversary this year of Beethoven’s birth, John Eliot Gardiner is leading his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s nine symphonies in five cities.
Gardiner On Mission To Revitalize Beethoven Symphonies Read More »
Haymarket Opera Company is staging John Frederick Lampe’s ‘The Dragon of Wantley,’ an 18th-century send-up of Italian opera that stuck it to politicians of the time.
Madcap ‘Dragon’ Is Making Its Way to Chicago Read More »
Four works for harpsichord and orchestra are featured on a new CD from the Chicago-based Cedille Records label with soloist Jory Vinikour, conductor Scott Speck, and the Chicago Philharmonic.
Harpsichord Finds Home In The 20th Century Read More »
