Tempesta di Mare’s Great Books program offered a large audience a high-spirited glimpse of baroque works inspired by literature and written for the theater.   This concert was especially engaging because instruments were the stars; they alone set the scenes and related the action that would have otherwise been sung or viewed onstage. 

Henry Purcell’s opera based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream included incidental music from the wedding scene at the end of…

The chorus began the first part of the mass with an exquisitely shaped phrase on Kyrie eleison that suggested more distinctive singing in this work, a promise realized throughout the performance.  The small baroque orchestra was just as admirable and expressive, whether in tutti sections, in…

Solomiya Ivakhiv was the violinist with Zsolt Bognár and Robert Durso, pianists at a chamber music concert at the Ethical Alliance on the Sunday afternoon.

The program began with the sonatina from Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, by Bach arranged by Kurtág.  Zsolt Bognár…

King’s College has an outstanding choir. Saturday’s concert affirmed its world-wide reputation for excellence.

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