Revisiting one of our special evenings in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio we called “Sonatas and Partitas” featuring pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Xuefei Yang, one of the first Chinese guitarists…
Category: <span>Baroque music</span>
One of the pieces by Carl Philipp Emmanuel that has never fallen out of favor in his native Germany is his Magnificat in D Major, a work that perhaps deliberately…
There are all kinds of terms to describe the period of history in between the Baroque era of Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, and the dawning of the so-called “Classical Era”…
A 329th birthday nod to Georg Friedrich from our WGBH Fraser Performance Studio, featuring the baroque ensembles Sarasa and Les Sirènes performing “Per abbattere il rigore,” from the two-soprano cantata…
Soprano Courtney Huffman and baritone Andrew Garland in Bach’s wonderful “Coffee Cantata.” A grand time had by all with Boston Baroque and conductor Martin Pearlman, ushering in 2014 with a…
After Sunday’s posting about my non-viewing of the Academy Awards (and judging by the low-ratings scorecard, I had plenty of company!), once I got to the concert I realized/remembered three…