Since it was launched in 2005, the Pacific Baroque Festival has ranged widely, both geographically and stylistically, through the music of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, in thematically unified ...

The superb German countertenor puts ravishing spins on music by Purcell, including an achingly beautiful account of Dido's Lament. Hearing a high male voice sing these works is a refreshing experience ...

After last week’s Mahler 8, another gargantuan choral work makes a welcome appearance on disc. Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts was first performed in the church of Les Invalides in 1837. The composer ...

For 20 years, the Dryden Ensemble has presented historically informed concerts of Baroque music to local audiences. This weekend, to commence the group's 20th season, founding director Jane McKinley ...

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido ...

Spring elation and derangement was interrupted twice this weekend for music, beginning with an assemblage from Quebec City: the Violons du Roy with guest conductor Richard Egarr from the Academy of ...

It didn't all work, but kudos to Shibe for trying. One overheard, rather than fully heard, the subtly dancing lute pieces (only the clavichord is quieter, surely). Shibe strolled around strumming on a ...

The cycles of a good ground bass can often feel like the cycles of grief, or even the physical experience of an uncomfortable spiral. If the English Restoration-era composer Henry Purcell were alive ...