Les Arts Florissants (lightly) stages two Charpentier rarities as a summer wedding gone wrong.
Christopher Corwin picks the flowers of a baroque May in New York City with reviews of concerts starring Lauren Snouffer, Key’mon Murrah, and the Oratorio Society of New York.
As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.
The operatic offerings of Boston Early Music Festival — Keiser‘s Octavia and Telemann‘s Pimpinone and Ino — are delectable discoveries
When the birthdays start to pile up in the double digits in big round numbers, you start to examine your past and review what you have done with your life.
On Tuesday night, in the commodious concert hall of the Morgan Library, the Boston Early Music Festival forces brought Georg Philipp Telemann’s Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho to New York.
Chris’s Cache celebrates the 91st birthday today of Janet Baker, one of my favorite singers.
Jordi Savall and William Christie, 80 and 77 respectively, stand as the two senior masters whose recordings and appearances have done the most over the past decades to build a healthy local enthusiasm for pre-Classical music.
Do we do what we have to do? Or do we have to do what we do?
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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