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The all-female early music vocal group from Prague makes its U.S. debut with a sublime concert of music by Hildegard von Bingen.
Read More »Concert Review: Tiburtina Ensemble Makes US Debut with Music of Hildegard von Bingen (NYC, May 7 2023)
Tag Archives: Music Before 1800
Concert Review: Boreas Quartett Bremen and Han Tol – ‘Il flauto magico’ (NYC, 27 January 2019)
The concert featured a closetful of varied recorders, most copied from original instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Read More »Concert Review: Vox Luminis – Motets of J.S. Bach (NYC, 28 October 2018)
In the hands of a gifted group like Vox Luminis, Bach's motets exhibit the great composer's artistic genius as fully as anything else he wrote.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard415 with Rachel Podger – Virtuoso Concertos of the Italian Baroque (NYC 10/16/2016)
With polished young performers on many different instruments at her disposal, Podger presented a wide range of music that featured flutes, oboes, and bassoon as well as strings.
Read More »Concert Review: Folger Consort and Stile Antico with Arcadia Viols (NYC, 1/24/16)
Defying the Blizzard of 2016, the combined ensemble presented early and new music celebrating Shakespeare.
Read More »Concert Review: Cappella Pratensis – ‘Josquin in Rome: Missa Ave maris stella’ (NYC, Nov. 8 2015)
We were in the presence of a brilliant musical mind with a timeless sensibility, brought to life by an ensemble of singers who are surely among our time's finest interpreters of Josquin and the other polyphonists of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Read More »Concert Review: Wayward Sisters, ‘The Naughty List’ (NYC, March 19, 2015)
This concert of Early Music presented by Music Before 1800 was just plain fun, thanks to the music's spirited beauty and Wayward Sisters' infectious energy.
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