Ellen T. Harris’ comprehensive, concise, and well-organized volume about ‘Dido and Aeneas’ will prove a durable, invaluable guide for musicologist, conductor, singer, stage director, dramaturg, or opera fan.
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It’s obvious from their excellent ensemble playing and total agreement on matters of articulation and phrasing that violinist Rachel Barton Pine and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour have lived intimately with these pieces over an extended period of time and given ample thought to interpretative decisions.
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The event, at the Philharmonie de Paris, features two performances each by the Camerata and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and includes lecture presentations and collaborative rehearsals.
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Coming almost a generation after Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, Telemann’s concerti-en-suite exhibit a still-wonderful flexibility in the definition of what makes a concerto (or suite, for that matter) and express a genuine joy in communal music-making, before the form had fully hardened into a vehicle for spotlit virtuosity.
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What a treat it is to have a new album from the British ensemble the Gonzaga Band that contains not one but seven world premieres as exciting as they are excellent.
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