Do students need a degree in historical performance to enter the field of early music? Most instrumentalists are positive about the need for a specialized degree. Singers? Not so much. But for anyone considering a degree in early music, ask yourself, “What does the program offer?”
TOIL & TROUBLE: A Degree in Early Music? Really? Read More »
This strong new recording is a collection of unpublished motets by Giulio San Pietro del Negro who, like his contemporary Monteverdi, let the words guide the music.
Premiere Recording of Unpublished Motets by Giulio San Pietro del Negro Read More »
The music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges is gaining a foothold in the repertoire, and his only surviving opera has finally been recorded. Haymarket Opera’s splendid ‘The Anonymous Lover,’ from 1780, features a winning cast and strong orchestra. Unmissable.
An Anonymous Lover in Chicago Read More »
Viol players today might know the music of English Tudor composer William Whyte, even as his biography remains a mystery. In this vivid new recording, New York’s Abendmusik has finally committed Whyte’s complete consorts to disc and make a compelling case for his music.
It’s All Just ‘Whyte Noyse’ Read More »
An impressive and valuable new book, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera,’ traces the origins and development of opera, from the 16th through cusp of the 18th centuries. More than a dozen scholars contribute essays, covering Florence and Paris as expected, but also with insightful histories on English, German, and the Spanish territories (including in the Western Hemisphere).
Telling the Origin Stories: Opera in the 17th century Read More »
