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| 01/12/2006
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing all the 5-star recordings reviewed in each edition of the magazine.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 9 new 5 Star releases from only 110 Euros. |
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| 15/01/2007
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| Late November brought news of a change of Artistic Director at the English Concert from September 2007. By that time Andrew Manze will have completed three years as Artistic Director, during which time he has brought substantial international success both on the concert platform and in the recording studio. He will be succeeded by Harry Bickett. |
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| 16/01/2007
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October 2006-March 2007.
This year, AMIA, the Association of Amis de la Musique sur Instruments Anciens of Strasbourg celebrates its 31st concert season. Since its creation, the main objective of this society has been to present new French performers and a variety of musical styles and genres. |
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| 18/01/2007
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| This album offers a fine introduction to Scarlatti’s dramatic muse, as expressed in his chamber cantatas. Elisabeth Scholl has a beautifully refined voice, and her innate musicality and keen attention to the texts are superbly complemented by Modo Antiquo’s sensuous, varied and detailed accompaniments under Sardelli’s direction. The performances are mostly refined and understated, yet without ignoring the drama. |
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| 05/01/2007
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| From the North East of England comes the welcome news that the Avison Ensemble has received £50,000 (e 75,000) in support of their work for the 2007–8 season. In the last few years they have managed to buy two substantial manuscript workbooks by Charles Avison, containing music by other composers that he copied out, and previously unknown works by him. |
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| 16/01/2007
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3 March to 11 March.
Miami’s International Tropical Baroque Music Festival VII honors the first American homegrown opera, produced in Lima in 1701. Tomàs de Torrejón y Velasco came to the New World as personal attendant to the Viceroy of Peru in 1667. Then in 1676 Lima Cathedral welcomed him as maestro de capilla. It seems quite appropriate that this festival, the southernmost in the United States, be the stage for this current production of Torrejón y Velasco’s La púrpura de la rosa. |
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| 12/01/2007
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| This is a very welcome release indeed, coming four years after I Fagiolini’s superb recording for Chandos, which itself came twenty-five years after Pro Cantione Antiqua’s for Archiv. The King’s Singers’ version outshines them both. |
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| 09/01/2007
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| Renaissonics and Passio, two early music ensembles, one instrumental and the other vocal, recreated Elizabethan music for audiences at Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island. RWU is the penultimate stop for the largest and most comprehensive exhibition about Queen Elizabeth I mounted in North America commemorating the 400th anniversary of her death. |
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| 17/01/2007
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| Don’t be put off by the rather stiff and wordy subtitle, “Musica figurata in Wroclaw and Silesia in the 14th and 15th centuries.” Simply stated, we have here a top-notch ensemble of singers and instrumentalists performing mensural music from a number of Central European sources including, for the later works, two notable collections now residing in the Jagellonian University of Cracow and the University Library in Warsaw. There is also music by a number of familiar composers, including Philippe de Vitry and Walter Frye. |
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| 18/01/2007
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16-25 March.
The Pórtico de Zamora Festival has quickly become one of the most important and surprising events on the Spanish festival calendar. The theme of this year’s Sixth festival is 'El Trino Lazo'. Six concerts will take place over two weekends from 16 to 25 March, including one of the festival’s own productions: Los Músicos de Su Alteza conducted by Luis Antonio González on 23 March. |
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