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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-01 21:24:25
Soprano Sonja Tengblad and trumpeter Justin Bland brightened BB’s celebratory evening of Handel, Boyce, Biber, and Bach at GBH’s Calderwood Studio last night. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-05 18:13:27
Handel’s Messiah broke forth with the bold assurance of divine retribution as well as intimacy in the Boston Baroque performance at Jordan Hall Sunday afternoon. Available on livestream through the end of the month. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-15 17:22:18
Boston Baroque began its 50th season, with an all-Beethoven tour-de-force featuring two of his most treacherous works (the Overture to Coriolan and the 9th Symphony) alongside a seldom-heard choral composition, Elegischer Gesang (Elegiac Song). [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-09-22 08:44:00
Drawing us into Handel's magical world: Amadigi di Gaula from the English Concert with Tim Mead, Mary Bevan, Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting
[…] it was something of a revelation, so much terrific music. I saw James Conway's production for Opera Theatre Company in 1996 and then, virtually nothing. But in the last few years the opera seems to have come back onto everyone's radar, popping up in concert at the 2018 London Handel Festival, and then more recent productions at Garsington and English Touring Opera, directed by James Conway [see my review] along with catching it on-line from Boston Baroque [see my review].The opera is from Handel's fascinatingly experimental early London period [see my article] when the influence of French opera in his output was greater. Amadigi represents something of a cross-pollination between the French and the Italian, before Italian opera seria took over as the main form in his work for the Royal Academy of Music. With its Deus ex machina and hints that the work might have been intended to have […]
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