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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
). I’m happy, once again, to be presenting here at the Boston Musical Intelligencer my personal selection of some of the most notable and engaging of the lot. Baroque era: I was delighted to get to know John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley (1737), in a highly accomplished and spirited recording. The work feels a bit like a successor to The Beggar’s Opera, not least in its pointed satire of social norms. (The work was just performed by the Boston Early Music Festival, though with a different cast and orchestra; the Boston Globe called the result “spellbinding.” Virtual tickets to watch the videorecording are available through December 23, 2023.) A recording of a serious English opera of the period, Matthew Locke’s Psyche, was musically marvelous but utterly undone for me by the mispronunciations of the libretto by the all-Francophone cast. No such problems occurred with Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-10 04:04:07
By choosing to anchor Boston Early Music Festival’s St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge concert in the music of a composer who was poised historically between Josquin des Pres before him and Palestrina after him, the savvy Director of the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, vividly called our attention to the aesthetic fertility of Franco-Flemish Art. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-10-20 19:36:00
I Gemelli : Performances I Wish I Could Get To
(Photo care of I Gemelli)The Toulouse-based Baroque music group I Gemelli has a short North American tour next month, with a program called A Room Full of Mirrors. Based on their video preview, these concerts sound like a lot of fun. They'll be performing works by Castelani, Turini, Marini, Falconieri, Frescobaldi, Castello, Castaldi, Gregori, D’India, Notari and Sabbatini. Note that the Boston concert will be streamable for two weeks in December!I Gemelli with Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Zachary WilderNovember 16 - New York City - Morgan Library (co-presented by the Boston Early Music Festival) November 18 - Boston - Jordan Hall presented by Boston Early Music Festival (available to stream online December 2-16)November 22 - Montréal - Salle Bourgie
2021-06-17 05:00:15
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