Long undervalued, Alessando Scarlatti’s vocal writing naturally weds singable lines with the Italian language. Ars Lyrica Houston’s colorful new recording of a Scarlatti oratorio, with an outstanding cast, makes a brilliant case for this rarely heard music.
A Marriage of Music and Mastery: Scarlatti from Ars Lyrica Houston Read More »
A thank you from EMA executive director, David McCormick.
Reactions from 2023 EMA Summit in Boston: ‘Electric!’ Read More »
On their latest stellar recording, the Suspicious Cheese Lords focus on Palestrina’s ‘Missa Illumina oculos meos,’ and the lengthy motet by Andreas de Silva on which it’s based. World premiere recordings, beautifully sung.
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Chamber ensemble AGAVE’s latest album, with the versatile voice of soprano Michele Kennedy, crisscrosses the Atlantic and spans several centuries. The focus is on women composers from the 17th through 20th centuries. Carefully planned, beautifully paced, this album forges connections deeper than the composers’ shared womanhood.
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Using church records, Robert Nosow’s fascinating, richly detailed book portrays Jacob Obrecht at St. Donatian in Bruges, and the church singers he composed for. The choristers were deeply embedded in the city’s civic life, and records show some were disciplined for mockery or being ‘extremely lazy, disobedient, and wholly incapable.’
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