Canto: Nurtured by Bach
This has been my joy and inspiration for the past year— to discover, little by little, a cross section of Bach’s early compositional moments in Leipzig.
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Blue Heron Becomes First North American Winner of Gramophone Magazine Early Music Award
The Early Music Award for 2018 recognizes Blue Heron’s 2017 release “Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 5,” capping the ensemble’s pathbreaking series of performances and recordings of this music of international significance.
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CD REVIEW: McKay Lodge Blooms In Rare Works
A new Naxos CD featuring baroque violinist Augusta McKay Lodge reveals the extent to which Bach stood on the shoulders of predecessors named Baltzar, Biber, and Matteis and was in the company of contemporaries like Pisendel, Nogueira, and Locatelli.
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CD REVIEW: Biber Mystery Sonatas Mesmerize
Canadian-born violinist Christina Day Martinson and Boston Baroque have released a two-CD set on the Linn label featuring Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s 15 short Mystery Sonatas for violin and continuo.
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Call for Papers: 2019 International Conference on Historical Horn Playing
All subjects relative to the history of horn playing and historical horn performance, including repertoire, history, performance practice as well as instrument manufacturing and conservation are considered.
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