| 单词 | Baroque |
| 例句 | Polishing Grand Baroque with all its loops and curls is a two-arm job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Bernini’s ingenuity in creating this theatrical display is fully characteristic of the Baroque. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a movement often labelled Romanticism, although, like the terms ‘Renaissance’, ‘Baroque’ and ‘Classical’, it presents considerable difficulties when applied to music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Small ensembles playing 'Baroque’ instruments at lower pitch had become the norm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A music stand in his classroom held sheet music, early Baroque pieces, mostly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The conductor had begun to make his name as a populist Baroque specialist at the time of the first big revival of Baroque music. The connection between Gordon Davidson and Neville Marriner, and what it means for modern-day L.A. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Sometimes I start at the Café Mexico in Piazza Dante or browsing in the secondhand bookstores that line the passageway leading to Piazza Bellini, named for the master of Neapolitan Baroque music. Seduced by Naples’ chaotic, crumbling beauty 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But it’s rare to hear a young singer with such a uniformly beautiful sound and such solid technique in repertory that includes the Baroque and Chinese folk song. Review: Ying Fang Caps a Moving Recital With a Dedication to James Levine 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The result is a beguiling mix of contemporary minimalism with Baroque and Rococo busy-ness. T Magazine: Pazzo Palazzo 2010-10-14T19:00:00Z “Donald Trump is all things to all people,” he told me in his Greenwich Village apartment recently, under the gaze of his ample collection of European church statues from the medieval to the Baroque periods. Andres Serrano Lets Objects Do the Talking 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z They opened with Biber’s Sonata No. 1 in D minor, “The Annunciation,” one of that Baroque composer’s short “Rosary Sonatas,” inspired by the 15 mysteries of the rosary. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It is only the presence of the harpsichords and the suggestive power of the name "Bach" that keeps the music in the Baroque era at all. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z He played this Baroque music with rich sound, taking full advantage of the modern piano. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z The antique plucked keyboard helped define music in the Baroque era and, through its tuning, the future of the Western art form. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. A Long-Awaited Museum Opens, With Agony and Ivory 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z From ancient autopsy rooms to glimmering Gothic chapels, medieval manuscripts to dark Baroque libraries, Europe’s universities can provide an intimate setting to experience some of history’s most impressive artifacts. Academic adventures: Visiting Europe’s top university sights 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps most remarkable, given the difficulties posed by the Baroque version of the instrument, was the playing of the three trumpeters: Mr. Bosworth, Daniel Walton and Sam Jones. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “My purpose is to broaden my scope as an artist, not to choose a corner to hide in,” he once told an interviewer who asked if he had hoped to specialize in Baroque music. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z She recalled visiting Rome in the 1960s and posing in front of the Trevi Fountain, a masterpiece of Baroque art. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T14:53:00Z The abstractions begin in an unexpected place, with silk-screen fragments that derive from Baroque prints. A lively dance by Pia Fries 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z But musical fundamentals were mostly secure, including stylish accompaniment from four members of Siren Baroque on a tiny stage behind the singers. Music Review: ?The Judgment of Paris? by Morningside Opera - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z Neal Goren, the company’s artistic director, conducted from the harpsichord a small group of players drawn from the estimable Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z Mr. Labadie is a specialist in music of the Baroque and Classical era. Review: A New Conductor Inspires the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z After the work’s dizzying range of moods and harmonies the players pulled back thrillingly for the final movement’s swift dance, almost Baroque in its courtliness. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z L’Aquila has fine architecture, including Baroque churches and early-20th-century Rationalist office blocks. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z Rubens was one of the most influential Baroque artists in northern Europe. Experts identify new Rubens sketch 2013-05-28T16:29:58Z Bronze statuette works grew in refinement and finish later in the Renaissance and into the Baroque era. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z CE: In your view, why is this the right time for Glyndebourne's first French Baroque opera? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Conducting from the violin or piano is more common with chamber and period orchestras and with Baroque music; with a full-size modern ensemble, the musicians essentially become rudderless for large swathes of a piece. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads the Royal Philharmonic 2014-01-13T22:59:38Z What Newman does in this fascinating fantasy and fanfare is isolate Stravinsky's rhythmic procedures and find in them something almost akin, if far spicier, to the Baroque trumpet fanfares with which he began the evening. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Bates, from the back of the stage on his laptop, mixed an electronically processed “Baroque ensemble” into the orchestral texture, which sometimes blended and sometimes disrupted. National Symphony Orchestra brings a mélange to the Kennedy Center 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The visual dynamism that he sought in clay and marble is of the essence in Baroque sculpture and in paintings by Caravaggio and Rubens, among others. Art Review: ‘Bernini: Sculpting in Clay’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-10-04T22:43:07Z Laurence Cummings, a Baroque specialist, conducted the period band Juilliard415 and a talented cast of students from the school’s vocal arts program. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet the Baroque is as much a temperament as a style. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The joy of Baroque music is that you get to personalize it through ornamentation. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z In photo shoots, they wore outfits with a Baroque flounce: blazers and ruffled shirts, ascots and sleeve garters. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z There were a number of outstanding orchestral solos, contributing excellence to a performance that frequently, if not quite consistently, scaled the heights of one of the great musical monuments of the Baroque. St John Passion – review 2013-03-31T17:31:01Z Scarlatti’s Baroque serenata is a short entertainment for two voices and small musical ensemble meant to be performed in the home or garden of an aristocratic family. Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z At an array of venues including the airy Felsenreitschule and the sacred space of the Baroque Kollegienkirche, its scale this year ranged from solo chant to Benjamin Britten’s immense “War Requiem.” The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Of course, the modern concept of intellectual property did not exist during the Baroque; a musician such as Bach was considered not an individual genius but a craftsman working with material in circulation. The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z While the work was inspired by those Italian Baroque masterpieces, Mr. Grashow’s creation was not carved from marble; instead, it was built entirely of cardboard. | Ridgefield: ?James Grashow: Corrugated Fountain,? in Ridgefield 2012-03-31T04:30:54Z Downstairs, the museum contains centuries-old religious artworks, elaborately painted Baroque ceramics, and numerous cases of black-glazed Classical vases adorned with gods, goddesses, centaurs, musicians, warriors and wild beasts. 36 Hours in Lecce, Italy 2013-08-08T19:58:46Z Dudamel asked for lightness of touch and crisp rhythmic articulation consistent with our ideas of Baroque period practice. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z In a building designed for the French court, each successive architect proved courtly, proceeding by diplomatic agreement, though styles shifted from late Renaissance to Baroque to neo-Classical. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z On a recording with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque, she begins in a mood of unearthly tranquility, joining notes in a liquid legato. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z At the time, performing on 17th-century violins was the province of specialists, and to this day relatively few violinists move easily between Baroque and modern violins, which differ in string tension, timbres and bowing styles. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z The performance involved fragments of various Baroque works grouped around the theme of astronomy. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z They will also be joined by an impressive group of four vocal soloists from around the country and the Baroque trumpet virtuoso Kris Kwapis. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The 4x4 Baroque Music Festival began as an early-music fan’s farewell to the summer, with four free concerts offered around Labor Day. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z With winter still refusing to end, Radio 3's Baroque Spring is proving more welcome than anyone could have anticipated. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z In “Arden Court,” Mr. Taylor, the modern master, choreographs one of his loveliest works: Dancers explore qualities of relationships — protective, joyful and even one-sided — to music by the Baroque composer William Boyce. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-11T22:17:24Z Renaissance and Baroque songs of heartbreak, despair and war receive strikingly vivid performances by five singers from Leipzig, Germany. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z An alluring self-portrait by the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi was the star of Christie’s old master paintings sale in January, depicting her when she was 25, clad in a sumptuous blue dress with gold embroidery. Inside Art: Works From Scotland Set to Tour America 2014-03-27T20:46:02Z “If you look closely, it’s not just a seascape, ” she said recently, speaking via Skype from her Rio studio, “but parts of angels, and other historic Baroque motifs, all fragmented, reordered and turbulent.” Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z They play to the Atheneum’s strengths by repeatedly combining European painting — especially Baroque — with arrays of decorative arts. Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z This year the Seattle native brought with him a trio of his early works, all set to Baroque scores. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group and SSO in a rite of spring 2010-05-22T18:08:00Z Although exhibited periodically over the years, these works — inspired by Baroque religious sculpture but favoring a plain-spoken, abstracting bluntness — look especially good here. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z The venerable ensemble Musica Secreta’s name is inspired by the mystery that still surrounds the music written by and for Renaissance and Baroque women. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The piece resembles Richter's previous works in its unmistakably modern conception while also drawing on Renaissance and Baroque conventions — strategic repetitions and variations, simple melodies and castrato-like vocals. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The galleries for Italian Baroque art — the largest space of its kind in any American institution, museum officials say — is scheduled to reopen next month, and will include antiquities alongside the paintings and sculptures. 2010-01-08T04:36:00Z Baroque, freestyle lettering often comes to Klausen first, informing the rest of the image. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z The choreographer Mark Morris calls the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra “the car that parks itself.” Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The play’s title is a portmanteau of “Baroque” and “Rococo,” the 17th- and 18th-century periods of ornate European art, fashion, architecture and music. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z But if you have thus far been unmoved by his museum’s curatorial exhortations, “Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes From the Hill Collection,” Ms. Allen’s sixth effort since 2003, may win you over. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z Zamarripa, according to his website, is also an oil painter who specializes in Baroque chiaroscuro. Raising 'Cain' to heights of horror-thriller hilarity 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Always in demand as a guest artist, he created the first of three Baroque orchestras in Amsterdam at age 25. At the Symphony: pre-Classical classics, and a rising violin star 2011-05-12T19:26:09Z Much of the dance has the formality of Baroque ballet — the court ballets of Louis XIV often featured female duets — with the two women, often close, tracing floor patterns with changing footwork. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z “This is so cool,” one young woman was overheard telling her date near a Caravaggio as she surveyed the lofty, luminous Baroque gallery, which used to be an indoor garden. Heads Up: Culture Blooms in Cleveland 2013-07-18T14:33:55Z All are members of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z Trumpeter Kris Kwapis joins the orchestra for “Baroque Celebration!,” a program of trumpet sonatas by Corelli and Handel as well as works for strings and harpsichord and selections from SBO’s new Vivaldi CD. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Dec. 23 2012-12-20T00:49:36Z There were lots of players with modern instruments, and, on the other side, people coming either from Baroque or Classical instruments. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The story is relatively simple, by Baroque operatic standards. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Many of the builders didn't have much experience constructing Baroque architecture, having instead created sets for less refined endeavors such as "Survivor" and "The Price Is Right," which tape just a few doors away. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The Baroque masterpiece has been done only once previously at Lyric, in an off-season concert performance in 1984 starring Marilyn Horne. Lyric Opera plays it safe upcoming season 2011-02-01T19:28:52Z Roaming the bustling streets, the architecture a mix of robust Baroque, light-filled Gothic and sleek contemporary, one quickly understands what Mr. Cole means. Valencia’s Newest Sounds of Music 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z He came of age at the end of the Baroque period and lived into the Classical age of Haydn and Mozart. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The steps of Baroque dance, he said in an interview, are often the most effective ways of moving at a given speed, to a specific groove. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z And he put in an endorsement of the French Baroque, which he studied in school. Classical Music This Week: The Met’s ‘Otello,’ San Francisco Opera and Rameau 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “A Superb Baroque” is billed as the first comprehensive survey of this material in three decades, and the largest of its kind in the United States. Perspective | Genoa and the Baroque: The most spectacular art you’ve never heard of 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z An exhibition exploring the concept of womanhood as represented through the Virgin Mary features works from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction Though trained in the study of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, he wrote as insightfully about modern art as he did about the old masters. Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z The mandolin, like the violin, was modernized in the Baroque era, and composers took advantage of its more penetrating sound. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z The music stays nimble, with hopscotching melodies and arrangements that merge perky new wave with Minimalism, Baroque music and Afropop: enough allusions to rival the name dropping in the lyrics. The Week Ahead: Sept. 12 ? Sept. 18 2010-09-10T15:37:00Z Christmastime is associated with Baroque music — “Messiah,” the “Brandenburg” Concertos — and the orchestra was happy to oblige, with a program of Handel and Rameau at David Geffen Hall. Review: A Baroque Start to the New York Philharmonic’s Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The A flat Quartet at times projects an almost Mendelssohnian lightness and at others hints at Baroque turns of phrase, and the G major work channels and . Music Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays ?Adventures in Bohemia? 2010-05-17T20:29:00Z In the context of this program the piece seemed linked in spirit to the era of extreme Baroque inventiveness. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z The surge of delta variant cases forced the National Gallery to cancel a major exhibition of Genoese Baroque art, already delayed from its anticipated opening in 2020. Perspective | Best visual art of 2021: Jasper Johns in two venues, Medici portraits and text-based artist Barbara Kruger 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Art historians consider both to be among the most important Northern Baroque paintings in the United States. Art Review: Scavenger Hunt at Met, Courtesy of Oberlin College 2010-04-22T22:36:00Z An early morning jog over the Charles Bridge revealed that it is a kind of outdoor museum of Baroque bronze sculpture from the 18th century. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z At times, the cellos and basses have the texture of Baroque continuo accompaniment. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z So he surrounded them with mysterious contemporary works and those wild Baroque pieces. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z The elaboration of space in European Baroque painting makes sense for a culture busily pushing out into physical space to colonize the globe. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Sciarrino also uses the Baroque trope of a chorus that narrates and comments on the action. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Her physical restraint suited the Ravel perfectly but seemed a bit strange in the Baroque numbers. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW With Heras-Casado at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:07Z This show, a collaboration with the Belgium-based Phoebus Foundation, offers a look at Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the Southern Netherlands from the 15th through 17th centuries. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Pieces from the collection include an intricate gilded collar from the Baroque period, a set of engraved silver collars from the 19th century, and a display of neckwear with owners’ markings. That Shaggy Mutt? At Dog Museums, Our Drooling Companions Are the Stars 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Dorrestein, the guitarist, said in a phone interview that he hadn’t known the Baroque repertory when she suggested they perform it. Nora Fischer Bursts the Classical Music Bubble 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Most of the first half was devoted to Baroque music, specifically Purcell, played in a style that embraces the spirit of the period-instrument world. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z Working between the 1740s and 1780s, Brown transformed scores of England’s finest country estates, sweeping away the Baroque terraces, geometric fountain ponds, and arrow-straight avenues rooted in French and Italian formalism. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It seems certain that van Dyck would have seen the first of these processions in locked-down Palermo, which still takes place every July, and which are as Baroque as one of the artist’s altarpieces. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z But for the Baroque composer, performance was a living thing. Century-bending works and wine at SSO this weekend 2011-10-27T20:18:05Z By learning about Baroque dance, I hoped to unlock the physical dimension encoded in the music. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z Primed by Mr. Kenney’s program note, I couldn’t avoid spotting more similarities — on a technical level, yes, but also on an emotional one — between the Baroque and contemporary works. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z To compensate, Mr. André performed transcriptions of many Baroque pieces for solo violin, voice and especially oboe. Maurice Andr?, Star of Classical Trumpet, Dies at 78 2012-03-03T05:12:16Z The Getty's prior tapestry show, "Spectacular Rubens," was all about the dazzling pictorial fireworks that the Flemish Baroque master regularly conjured from wool and silk. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, a period band, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances — though the vocal solos, featuring choir members rather than guest artists, can be wildly uneven. Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The Chamber Music Society has long given performances of Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos during the holiday season, and now that’s expanded into a larger Baroque project. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z In his early performances he tried to find common ground between Baroque and modern approaches. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z We also visited a secretive Baroque library that you cannot photograph and a neo-Gothic bookstore that is said to have inspired J.K. How my family of four pulled off a Portugal trip during the pandemic 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z His favorite: the Malecón, a five-mile promenade stretching along Havana's sea wall that is known for its colonial architecture mixed with Baroque and neoclassical monuments. Jeffrey Milstein's Cuba photographs to be published in new book 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z The practice of using substitute arias outlasted the Baroque, persisting into the age of Bel Canto and beyond before falling out of favor. The Metropolitan Opera Revives ‘The Enchanted Island’ 2014-02-24T23:05:14Z Guy Ferber played on a coiled Baroque trumpet that has no valves. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z And the superstars of Baroque opera were castratos — boys castrated before puberty to retain their high voices — the best of whom intriguingly combined a feminine range and sound quality with heroic, masculine power. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The Bernini will be displayed at the Getty's Italian Baroque gallery where there is already a portrait by the Italian artist Guercino of Pope Gregory XV, the pope who succeeded Paul V in 1621. The Getty Museum snaps up a Bernini bust, adding heft to L.A.'s Baroque holdings 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Anchored by a select group of resident ensembles and artists, the programming will span opera, indie rock, electronica and Baroque. Music Review: ‘Skyful,’ With Brooklyn Rider at Original Music Workshop 2012-09-16T21:33:56Z The Gentili family and Italian officials have been negotiating over the status of the painting, which the Brogan kept for safekeeping after the rest of the Baroque exhibit closed in September. ArtsBeat Blog: Authorities in Florida Seize Painting on Loan to a Museum 2011-11-04T22:13:53Z Near the top hangs an embroidered Baroque altar front in royal purple and gold. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The seven candidates chosen by Denhard and a search committee are remarkably accomplished and highly qualified Baroque specialists with proven know-how in developing performing arts organizations. Rachel Barton Pine: violinist, headbanger, SBO guest conductor 2014-01-10T21:57:13Z Baroque painting had largely been conceived to advance the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by Protestant assaults. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The Prince Bishop's Court Cellar is the world's largest Baroque cellar, built for exclusive use by the prince bishops of Würzburg. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Schoenberg’s five-movement atonal work, modeled on a Baroque suite, represents an important step in his development as a serial composer. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z We usually associate the phrase “period instruments” with the Baroque era. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z At a time when symphony orchestras have been all too ready to cede Baroque repertory to early-music specialists, the Pittsburgh Symphony seems an unlikely source for this sort of experimentation. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z In fact, the Baroque master had painted his own dark features on the faces of the three gods. U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z Though I am not a fan of all of Mr. Christie’s work, in French Baroque repertory he is incomparable, and he has fostered an extraordinary ensemble of choristers and instrumentalists. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z Building a 21st-Century Baroque As she walked down the stage, it seemed at first like an illusion. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z With its Baroque intonations, the piano interlude participates in establishing the track's nostalgic undercurrents. The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z It was the style of the time, a sort of Japanese Baroque, and Nikko is its highest expression. Overnighter : North of Tokyo, Exploring the Sacred and Scenic 2014-02-06T19:30:54Z It took many decades and the arduous work of Baroque opera’s advocates to insert the works of the period firmly in the contemporary repertory. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z At one end is the treasury of parts written for castrato singers during the Baroque era; at the other, an explosion of contemporary music. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Most notable among the instrumentalists were Scott Metcalfe and Karina Fox, the violinists, often in close duet; and Kris Kwapis, who made the intractable Baroque trumpet sound appealing if not always easy. Music Review: Tenet at Trinity Wall Street - Review 2011-11-25T23:32:29Z He is a stylish dresser and a raconteur with a mischievous sense of humor and a penchant for colorfully offbeat music, be it Baroque or modern. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Then I discovered the Baroque music and Monteverdi. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z The same was true of many of the churches and palazzi in Ragusa Ibla, and on the narrow streets and seafront facades on Syracuse’s Ortygia Peninsula, two other jewels of Sicilian Baroque. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z Baroque concepts of melancholy embraced not only what we would classify as depression, but also a series of emotional responses to ideas of mortality, mutability and transience. Andreas Staier: Pour Passer la Mélancholie – review 2013-03-07T21:30:01Z On Aug. 30, Mad Synagogue, which was built in the Baroque style in 1795, was decorated with flowers and filled with joy. A Celebration Uniting Past, Present and Future (Mom Predicted It) 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Delve more into Sicily’s Baroque period with a visit to the southeast cities of Ragusa and Noto. Why your next vacation should be in Sicily 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He drew superb playing from the Concerto Palatino ensemble of equally exotic cornetti and sackbuts, and from members of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z Mr. Jacobs, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and an alert, excellent cast have located both its uproarious farce and its core of melancholy. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z Ms. Sikora adds an exotic touch of her own: a lyrical, ear-catching solo line for a Baroque throwback, the viola da gamba. Music Review: Embracing the Modern With Tone Clusters, Not Dissonance 2011-01-23T22:49:50Z Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, based in San Francisco and one of the country’s most respected period-instrument ensembles, will be passing its harpsichord, too. Passing the Baton (and Harpsichord) at Philharmonia Baroque 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Rameau was a major French composer of opera and harpsichord music from the Baroque era. SBO conductor candidate Kevin Mallon leads Bach cantatas 2014-03-19T19:52:56Z Saturday for players of recorder, viol, Baroque flute and other early instruments. A busy weekend for Seattle Baroque fans, with Handel Festival 2011-03-17T20:02:07Z Stravinsky's Septet, given a lively performance by Xtet, is based on Baroque forms. L.A.'s rich tradition of new music carries on 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The episode looks at how Scarlatti created a style of his own, and successfully straddled the Baroque and Classical periods. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Blacklist’ and ‘Raising Dion’ 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Working mainly in Venice and Rome, Brustolon created ornate furniture in the Venetian Baroque style, known for its sumptuous ornamentation and curving lines. An Italian Walnut Armchair Is on the Block 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z I was playing a lot of Baroque violin pieces at the time, and Bach uses all these dance forms, so it felt like a great jumping-off point. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Take this creamy treat on a stroll through some of Turin’s prettiest areas, beginning at the expansive Piazza San Carlo, which is ringed with elegant Baroque buildings. 36 Hours in Turin, Italy 2012-06-28T18:55:14Z Julian Wachner and his Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra came close to matching the original distribution of days last year with midday performances at St. Paul’s Chapel as part of its Twelfth Night Festival. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z But Mr. Sperling used a full complement of 125 singers, as Shaw would probably not have done in Bach, and he set this hefty choir against the period instruments of New York Baroque Incorporated. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The iconic Baroque Versace motif made appearances as appliques sewn onto wool coats or in the familiar gold-and-black print in a quilted coat. Milan designers fall back on the “classics” 2013-01-14T18:09:16Z Named for two Baroque dances, the title is a bit of a feint: Muhly has both embraced and refused the forms. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Your career was made with Romantic concertos, but lately you’ve worked backward in time, now to the Baroque. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Baroque monkeys probably appeal less to Ms. Prada’s sense of humor than to her appreciation of history, and her way of bringing it forward in fashion. Monkey Business at Prada 2010-09-23T19:55:00Z But this miscalculation is soon forgotten when Jacobs follows it with such a wonderfully fleet account of the finale, with the Freiburg Baroque players conjuring up textures of almost Mendelssohnian deftness. Mozart: Symphonies Nos 39 & 40 | CD Review 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z It will feature a performance of Vivaldi’s great oratorio “Juditha Triumphans,” with the Venice Baroque Orchestra joined by the estimable New York ensemble Tenet. Review: Venice and Vivaldi, Center Stage at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z David Timm conducted the university’s choir and Baroque ensemble in three cantatas, over and above the 33. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The Choir of Trinity Wall Street gave the first of its three “Messiah” performances on Saturday evening together with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra under its conductor, Julian Wachner. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z Baroque tinges from the harpsichord underpin the violin’s elegant lines. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z And what constitutes proper Baroque style is hotly debated, even among specialists. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The rest of the program was played by a large group, in Baroque terms: eight violins, two violas, two cellos, bass, Baroque guitar, theorbo and harpsichord. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z A massive earthquake in 1693 devastated much of the region and many towns were rebuilt in a late baroque style, which became known as Sicilian Baroque. A road trip around Sicily is a journey across centuries 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The British soprano Lucy Crowe’s expertise and imagination in Baroque music gives her the freedom to turn da capo arias into feats of feeling. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z From Lisbon to St. Petersburg, Russia, the Bibienas dominated every major court theater in Baroque Europe. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “Even in the older literature, as far back as the Baroque, there is a wider repertoire than cellists are willing to admit.” Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z As a student he drew everything in Rome from antique to Baroque sculptures — from the celebrated Apollo Belvedere, all poised restraint, to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s explosive sunburst, “Glory,” at the Vatican. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Layered on top of the individual differences are huge stylistic variations: There are French, German and American-style organs, Baroque, Romantic and modern. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z There’s no Baroque ensemble anywhere in China, there are no period instruments, and it’s basically not taught in the conservatories. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z Mexican Baroque art depends on the imaginative elaboration of surface rather than of space — even to the extent that writing text on a picture became a common preoccupation. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z This Baroque program began with a vigorous account of the Prelude from Charpentier’s “Te Deum,” music that deftly mixes martial-like rigor and sparkling ebullience. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z To examine the Crusades, he has turned to Baroque music, with new, mostly prerecorded interludes composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z I don’t mean a precious junkyard of alfresco antiquities, Renaissance gems and Baroque treasures. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z They were drawn to “very strong images of violence” from the Baroque period, but, he added, “Our buyers are fewer and richer.” Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Yet, over and above its pedagogical value, it was the freshness and immediacy of this performance given by the Britten-Pears Baroque Ensemble, with singers from the Britten-Pears Young Artist programme, that made it memorable. Dido and Aeneas – review 2013-04-01T15:01:19Z We will have pops of color on seat cushions, and maybe an ornate Baroque mirror. Ian Schrager Unveils the New York Edition 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Stroll through the handsome historic center, past Baroque churches and corner wine shops, to Piazza Castello, the town’s scenic — and recently refurbished — main square. 36 Hours in Barolo, Italy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The painted ceiling demonstrates the illusions of Baroque’s trompe l’oeil. Academic adventures: Visiting Europe’s top university sights 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The music itself is “eclectic,” Mr. Venables said: passages inspired by Baroque and religious music, but also percussive attacks. At Prototype, a Posthumous Play Revived as Chamber Opera 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The recording, “Baroque Conversations,” and the recital program are the latest projects in what has become a trademark of Mr. Greilsammer’s work since his mid-20s. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z A performance three years later by Nicholas McGegan and his Philharmonia Baroque was the sensation of the Berkeley Early Music Festival. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z McGegan now returns to his Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in the Bay Area, guest appearances elsewhere and his principal guest conductor post at the Pasadena Symphony. Hollywood Bowl closes out its classical season with satisfying, gimmick-free Mozart 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z They shaped the music broadly, with little of the interplay between loud and soft, dark and light, that gives Baroque music its unique shimmer. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Medieval and Baroque objects crop up at opposite ends of the fair. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z On the surface, the piece has the form of a Baroque concerto grosso, but the two forces seem to exist on separate planes, heightening the symphony’s solitary feel. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He expanded the repertory, conducting little-known Baroque works as well a new ones written for antique instruments. Maestro of the Influential Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Step Down 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But once the prologue got going, it was gently comic, with appealing music that blends Broadway sass and Baroque pastiche. Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z I didn’t think too much about it until, at 20 or so, I discovered the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque, and particularly that of Bach. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Nor is Juilliard415 alone in finding its identity in Baroque pitch. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z The music, with its echoes of the Baroque, is more interesting than the overwrought choreography, although Mr. De Luz is a tour de force here. Dance Review: New York City Ballet With a Dose of the Underworld 2014-05-02T23:04:16Z But many important Baroque composers wrote nothing else besides music that involves the voice. Pacific MusicWorks debuts first complete season 2011-10-20T20:12:06Z But Thursday afternoon brought the evergreen: the first part of a two-day survey of Bach’s six “Brandenburg” Concertos, by the Chamber Players of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, at St. Paul’s Chapel. Music Review: ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-12-28T23:48:01Z But Marriner did pepper the Baroque with all kinds of wonderful things, including Charles Ives and Virgil Thomson. The connection between Gordon Davidson and Neville Marriner, and what it means for modern-day L.A. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Still, there is something about his abundant zeal and affection that seems to enhance his work in the Baroque and Classical repertory he favors. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall 2013-06-03T20:02:26Z But this is a trio of vibrant, flexible, funny Baroque singers who might have a road show of their own in their future. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Now, 17 months later, as the delta variant rages around the world, the museum has been forced to cancel “A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750” just five weeks before its second scheduled opening. National Gallery forced to cancel its landmark ‘Genoa’ exhibition because of worsening pandemic conditions, travel problems 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He fell out of fashion in the 1650s when the Flemish Baroque style, popularized by Anthony van Dyck, became the new vogue. In Amsterdam, Loving Rembrandt Again 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I simply believe that this is the only way to approach the true quality of sound of the Baroque period, and that sound is what suits the music best. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z But in the Baroque era, musicians were far less reverential. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z The program includes the Baroque genius' Orchestral Suite No. 2, the "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 in F major, and Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor. SSO's Emma McGrath: From Celtic folk to Bach 2012-01-13T03:49:03Z Awe is also the overriding emotion that musicians bring to the part — especially when they perform it on the Baroque trumpet. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But a well-designed program showed off the group’s full range; Baroque repertory made up the first half, with a sequence of Romantic and contemporary pieces leading back to Bach in the second. Music Review: Visitors Lift Up Their Voices to Bach and More 2011-05-24T21:09:19Z "We present Baroque with a svelte profile," he says. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z He plays 14 fugues by composers from two generations of the high Baroque. Classical Playlist: Christiane Karg, Alan Feinberg and More 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z And for further comparison there will be seven sheets by Michelangelo, that other peak of Renaissance achievement, who lived to help ring in the Baroque. Beauty in the Hand of Leonardo 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z IT IS not every day that you get a phone call announcing the discovery of a long-lost Baroque masterpiece, even if you are the director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Getty got it, good 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Renaissance pictures are “linear,” each figure outlined and balanced within the picture plane; Baroque pictures are “painterly,” with figures melting into one another. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, she managed to turn the Chicago Bears fight song into a clever Bachian fantasy in which the tune disappeared amid yards of lacy Baroque figuration. Pianist Gabriela Montero combines classical improv with a spicy Latin beat 2011-02-05T15:53:00Z Baroque style teaches us that it is only by virtue of form that emotions gain true meaning. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z The movement, the exaggeration, the unashamed flamboyance: This, my friends, is Flemish Baroque art in all its majesty. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Miroslaw Budzynski, the curator, plied me with anecdotes about presidents, portraits and pianos, his words echoing through large rooms decorated with Baroque furniture and elaborate frescoes. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z As different groupings of dancers come and go, marking the hornpipe music with some maritime motions, rumpling Baroque grace with hip bumps and air kisses, other dancers pass in front or behind. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z She said she found the musicians in modern orchestras to be increasingly versatile and willing to experiment in approaching the Baroque. A Baroque Specialist Gets the Philharmonic to Play From the Gut 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z A welcome commitment from the Met to a Baroque repertoire that it can serve better. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z He is fascinated by the art and music of the Italian Renaissance and the Baroque periods. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z A performance of a sonata by Biber, the Baroque weirdo, must be heard to be believed. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Padmore, 52, sang his share of big productions, particularly Baroque ones, earlier in his career. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z Together the productions were a high point in the academy’s decades-long commitment to Baroque opera. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Baroque music, long the primary source of employment for countertenors — men who sing in the vocal register typically associated with mezzo-sopranos or altos — remains a major part of Mr. Costanzo’s career. Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z It is a painting at once grand and harsh, its sunburst of fiery light amid the clouds propelling this majestic woman into a Baroque vision of the heavens themselves. Divine rule: Anthony van Dyck's Rachel de Ruvigny, Countess of Southampton, as Fortune 2012-08-30T10:02:37Z The smaller but vigorous Orchestra of St. Luke’s is welcoming a new principal conductor, as well: Bernard Labadie, a Canadian maestro known for his detailed, nuanced accounts of the Baroque and Classical repertoire. With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s as if designer Donatella Versace looked into the archives and decided she loved it all: Golden accents, studs, Baroque touches, wild prints and hand-painted details. Milan designers fall back on the “classics” 2013-01-14T18:09:16Z The Master Chorale's orchestra played with a suave Baroque style. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s one of several questions Tines intends to pursue on- and offstage as the first creative partner for San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Perspective | A star opera singer is changing classical music with a radical idea: Listening 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The program was like the inverse of the classical music standard: all Baroque and 20th-century repertory, with nothing in between. Music Review: ‘The Cellists of Lincoln Center’ at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-23T20:05:39Z On Friday and Saturday, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street returned to their newly restored home, Trinity Church Wall Street, for their first “Messiah” there since 2018. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But she was accompanied by an intimidating solo Baroque flute and a pair of honking, tonally wayward bassoon-like oboes da caccia. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Note: This Baroque & Wine series event offers wine tasting from 6:30-7:45 p.m. SSO's Emma McGrath: From Celtic folk to Bach 2012-01-13T03:49:03Z This was not the Baroque of waistcoats and powdered wigs, of delicate dances and imperiously raised index fingers. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z It was rather magical, and not at all jarring, to shift from the musical realm of English Baroque style to Ms. Saariaho’s hazy, diaphanous and quizzical modern music, as in the intensely expressive “Miranda’s Lament.” Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Its production of “Eliogabalo,” Francesco Cavalli’s Baroque Italian opera about a truly decadent Roman emperor, was performed at the Box, a nightclub and burlesque house of somewhat louche reputation on the Lower East Side. Gotham Chamber Opera Has Rare Works and Many Venues 2013-12-24T21:40:58Z “Baroque” and “excess” often pop up in descriptions of his style. A French Theater Impresario, Dressed for Excess 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Buried down in the basement, unadvertised, is a newly installed collection of religious art, paintings from the Byzantine to the Baroque plucked from churches in the surrounding countryside. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z Tantalizingly, the third picture in the celebrated set — which together sealed Gentileschi's reputation as a major Baroque artist — remains in an unidentified New York private collection. Getty purchases Gentileschi's radiant 'Danaë,' now owns 2 of 3 paintings in a set 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z That open-mindedness is reflected in his 2021 album “Carte Blanche,” which starts with a new suite from the “Pride and Prejudice” soundtrack and continues with works from the Baroque period through the 20th century. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Alexander Neef, the general director of the Canadian Opera Company, laments the difficulty of finding real contraltos to fuel the continuing renaissance of Baroque opera, with its many roles originally geared to castratos. Avery Amereau Is a Rarity in Music: A Contralto 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But it is hardly certain what it entails to approach something in “a Baroque spirit,” not to mention how to present that spirit to a contemporary audience. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z Early Music Seattle, Seattle Baroque Orchestra’s parent organization, has never before presented the world premiere of a newly commissioned work. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Arnalta, Poppea’s wizened nurse, is essentially a comic role that in the Baroque era might have been performed by a male singer in female dress. Music Review: Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z When he died, there was a memorial at Beyond Baroque, where his colleagues, friends, students and members of the literary community gathered to mourn his passing and shared his impact on our lives. Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Though a lively musician and a specialist in Baroque music, McGegan here went for big orchestral effects. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z By comparison, Baroque Band operates on the thinnest of shoestrings. If the music is Baroque, don't fix it 2011-01-26T15:22:15Z Go up to the fourth ring, and, from above, it looks like a Baroque ceiling. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z Driven between repression and release, she embodies Baroque opera. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z The program was the culmination of the sixth annual Clarion Collegium Week, a series of lectures and master classes that this year highlighted the Baroque music of Latin America. Music Review: ‘Bolivian Baroque’ at Columbia University 2013-05-03T23:19:01Z The excerpts amount to a modernist homage to a Baroque dance suite, with movements called Courante, Gavotte and such. Music Review: A Musical Discourse On War and Cities 2011-03-20T22:08:36Z But in 1904, before Frick acquired any of these well-known paintings, he bought a self-portrait by the 17th-century Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Frick Collection Acquires Murillo Self-Portrait 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Some listeners may by inclined to enjoy Bach’s animated Baroque style much more than Brahms’s teeming Romanticism. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that all of them were, at one time or another, affiliated with Beyond Baroque. In 'Wide Awake,' Suzanne Lummis gathers the poets of Los Angeles 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The pieces were all completed within two or three years of each other, visual proof of the height of Rome’s Baroque moment. Getty got it, good 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z American premieres include “Sága,” by Dez Mona and Baroque Orchestration X, a song cycle on the subject of homecoming; and “The Last Hotel,” the first opera by the playwright Enda Walsh. Theater Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Seattle’s veteran historically informed performance company kicks off the holiday season with a performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” featuring the Blessed Sacrament Schola Cantorum, soloists and Baroque orchestra on 18th-century instruments. 4 classical-music events to hear this week 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Baroque buildings were characterised by curves, domes, broken pediments and a gloriously inventive play on classical detailing. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z He loves taking in the manicured gardens, the mazes, one of the world’s oldest zoos still in existence, and one of the largest Baroque orangeries in the world. The Prince With No Throne 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Lully’s “Armide” is a co-production with Opera Atelier, the Toronto company that has specialized in Baroque operas involving major elements of dance, which are staged with sensitivity to Baroque styles but with new twists. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z Because of the popularity of dances like “Aureole,” “Brandenburgs” and “Esplanade,” elegantly constructed and set to Baroque music, the Taylor repertory is often seen as less than radical. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Bizarrely, the greatest German Renaissance and Baroque vessels turn up far away. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z But she will return on Thursday for an ambitious program of early-18th-century arias: “The Swedish Nightingale,” joined by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z I see programs that have put a piece of Philip’s together with a Baroque piece; that makes sense in certain ways. Philip Glass and John Adams on a Bowie-Inspired New Symphony 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z This piece, set to Purcell, is much admired for its retelling of Shakespeare’s “Othello” within the formal constraints of Baroque social dance. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Dots Lower Manhattan 2013-08-13T21:41:40Z But then the Baroque was a highly dramatic style. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z Via the Baroque, the Flip Side of Spring Frolics You probably shouldn’t give too much weight to the title of a concert, especially one obviously chosen for its chiming quality. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z It's all Baroque — early classical music, so the program ties together thematically. Mark Morris and Seattle Symphony to collaborate at Paramount 2010-05-12T22:50:00Z “John Somebody,” he wrote, resulted “when the partially developed elements laid out on my table met the animating idea of the Baroque dance suite, episodic but unified.” Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z But bringing these Baroque works to the enormous Met, which was designed — and supersized — for later operas, can be a challenge. In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Baroque opera explored elements of gender fluidity in a way that now seems prescient. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Still, “The Baroque Vanguard” was a good concert and it was inspiring to see the accomplished players of Ensemble Signal reveling in the 18th-century pieces. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z But Kolesnikov nudged them as closely together as possible — again applying modern pedalwork to the Baroque, and using Chopin as a stylistic anchor. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The increased presence of Baroque operas on the international scene in the past few decades has benefited Mr. Costanzo and his peers; countertenors are now actively sought by major opera companies worldwide. Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Now he is branching out from Baroque parts originally written for castrati. ‘I Would Love to Sing Lucia’: A Male Soprano Comes Into His Own 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The latter included “Baroque Hoedown,” which became known to millions of people worldwide when it was used as the music for the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland and other Disney theme parks. Jean-Jacques Perrey, leader in electronic pop music, dies at 87 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z I was completely staggered by the outsize splendor — Caserta is known as the swan song of Baroque architecture. Impossible to Forget: Caserta, Italy 2011-01-07T21:00:28Z Would a Baroque bad hair day lead to good young listeners? ‘Beethoven’s Wig’ Combines Classical Music With Seussian Whimsy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z His final publication, A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar, will be published in February. James Tyler obituary 2010-12-02T18:25:00Z Models in full Galliano regalia traced lazy circles around Baroque, flower-covered centerpieces, pausing in front of the photographers' pits to strike exaggerated poses. Fashion world flocks to see Galliano collection 2011-03-07T01:35:15Z Yes, there's an awful lot more recitative, or conversational style in French Baroque opera, a lot more reliance on music that is strongly linguistic. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z A modern version of a Baroque court masque, the work brings together period instruments with references to Britney Spears and infinity pools. Review: In ‘You Us We All,’ a Symbolic Hope Writes to Pop Divas 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z This first-ever survey of the sumptuous, late Baroque era is a spellbinding overview, filled with art at once brilliantly inventive and often wonderfully weird. Best art in 2017: Our critic's top 10 exhibitions, plus one very big worry 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But these days Portugal’s second-largest metropolis — an attractively faded hillside city of venerable town houses and Baroque churches — no longer needs to coast on the reputation of its famous digestif. 36 Hours in Porto, Portugal 2011-11-25T06:02:02Z “I listened to a lot of Baroque music at one point,” he said. The Carpetbagger: ‘Gravity’s’ Score, Playing Soon in Space? 2014-02-06T16:59:07Z Such was the annual 4x4 Baroque Music Festival, presented last week by its founder and director, the keyboardist Avi Stein, at Trinity Church on Lower Broadway. Review: A Sublime Survey of Baroque Music 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It is as rich and exuberant as other Baroque styles, but it was driven by reticent oligarchs competing among themselves. Perspective | Genoa and the Baroque: The most spectacular art you’ve never heard of 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z By the mid-’70s he began experimenting with period instruments for performances of Baroque music. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z Founded as a retirement community for Roman soldiers, it has many of the same attributes as Barcelona — both were ancient walled cities — with a sprawling, mazelike center filled with Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque architecture. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He researched the Baroque repertory of Andalusia, excavated little-known music by Spanish composers and even performed in a street-theater group. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z Much of the Baroque repertoire Byrne plays alludes to dance forms. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Maybe it was the night’s full moon, but what are the odds that this concerto, which not only quotes a spiritual, ends with the obscure Baroque form of a quodlibet? Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z "Last season was Baroque and darker, and the season before that was very ornate," Chapman said in a preshow interview. Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume 2012-09-13T20:16:13Z In the spirit of Baroque opera “The Enchanted Island” is long. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z The Impromptu is structured like a Baroque passacaglia, with an insistent chorale-like theme put through myriad tinkling, brash and eerie variations. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z Xavier Salomon, the Met’s curator of southern Baroque art, calls the Velázquez “the Mona Lisa of Modena” and “a high watermark in the history of baroque portraiture.” Art Review: ‘Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este,’ at the Met 2013-04-18T20:19:23Z You developed your interpretation on the Baroque traverso flute, and only switched to modern flute days before the recording. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z City Opera’s longtime success in Baroque works is echoed in the sensitively, sumptuously sung and played “Semele.” A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z For Baroque trumpeters, the challenge in Handel’s “Messiah” is to radiate confidence even while negotiating the difficulties of the part. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Fans of Renaissance and Baroque works are in luck, as 40 rarely seen works from those eras are making an appearance in the Pacific Northwest. Exhibitions to Fill an Art Lover’s Fall Calendar 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The city’s most famous building is the Mannheim Baroque Palace, said to be the largest in Europe after Versailles in France. In Germany, site of the ‘first bike tour in history’ has much to offer modern-day visitors 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z And he adroitly maintains the balance between discipline and release that is central to Baroque music, particularly the French repertoire. He Was a ‘Bad Boy’ Harpsichordist, and the Best of His Age 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The city has many layers — modern, Baroque, Renaissance, Christian. Seeing ancient Rome: The things that were Caesar’s 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Especially popular are Baroque concerts, held at churches all over town. Rick Steves’ Europe | For the best of Venice, go out after dark 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It was the mix of arts and styles at Black Mountain that inspired Lou Harrison in the early 1950s to explore Baroque period tuning and Japanese court music while finishing his 12-tone opera, "Rapunzel." How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z On Tuesday the accordion makes an unexpected appearance in unusual arrangements of works by Bach and Rameau as part of a program, “Baroque Remix,” that also features works by Hertel and Vivaldi. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Yoncheva has coloratura agility, retained from her early days as a Baroque specialist, and isolated high notes pop out clearly. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It really is important, I believe, if we want to understand the intense beauty of Renaissance and Baroque art, to grasp the polarities of visual experience an artist such as Pisanello was accustomed to. Pisanello at the British Museum: a gory delight 2010-07-05T12:35:00Z Period details like Baroque ceiling cherubs dressed in gold commingle stylishly with contemporary touches like teardrop lamps by the Italian designer Davide Groppi. T Magazine: Bed Check 2012-05-14T18:15:37Z In typical Baroque style, the opening section of each aria is repeated; at that point, the character’s double emerges, like an apparition. Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The musicians soon abandoned that approach in favor of a more conventional Baroque style, but that first impression lingered throughout the reading. Music Review: Proving That Early Music Can Contain Startling Shifts 2011-03-08T22:00:11Z On Saturday evening, as part the Miller Theater’s series Bach and the Baroque, the excellent vocal ensemble Tenet took a different tack at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin near Times Square. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z He has the same fascination with the art of language that that great Baroque poet had. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z One infamous essay, a jeremiad bluntly titled “Schoenberg Is Dead,” excoriated that recently deceased composer for having force-fitted his new serial language into antiquated musical forms, such as the Baroque suite. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z New York audiences accustomed to seeing him in Metropolitan Opera productions of Handel’s “Rodelinda” and the Baroque pastiche “The Enchanted Island” will get a more intimate Handel in “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo.” Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z In both portraits, the Baroque coiffeurs and draperies are stripped away. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z Boston Baroque, led by Martin Pearlman, performs the stormy opening movement with rhythmic verve and intensity. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Boston Baroque, Rafal Blechacz, Alexandre Tharaud and More 2014-01-01T17:00:22Z “Rembrandt & Co.” is being held on the second floor of the Baroque Sternberg Palace, next to Prague Castle. In Transit Blog: Trove of Dutch Masters Reunite in Prague Show 2012-02-28T11:00:27Z There is no one way to play or think about these suites, each a big overture followed by a collection of Baroque dance movements. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Music and dance are supposed to carry equal weight in an opéra-ballet, a genre particular to the French Baroque that consists of a loose sequence of tableaus filled with stock characters and situations. Review: Les Arts Florissants in a Heady Mix of Cabaret and Miley Cyrus 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Even greater whimsy dictated the distribution of Renaissance and Baroque age art. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z Ms. Reinhold and the other singers Mr. Christie favors have mastered the suspension between speech and music that is at the heart of French Baroque style. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z At one time a lynchpin in Christie’s Old Masters department, the dealer ranks among the great connoisseurs in Renaissance and Baroque painting. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z Along with his Kate Bush project, Mr. Bleckmann is preparing to record a pair of Bach cantatas with a Spanish Baroque ensemble, and a songwriting collaboration with an Icelandic avant-garde jazz guitarist. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z I was thinking about this in recent days after taking the artistic temperature of two worthy organizations, Music of the Baroque and Baroque Band. If the music is Baroque, don't fix it 2011-01-26T15:22:15Z Its audacious hybrids are driven principally by a fascination with reviving the Baroque art of ornamental extemporization and a curiosity about how contemporary improvisatory styles might be enlisted in that quest. Music Review: L?Arpeggiata?s Period Instruments at Zankel Hall 2012-03-15T22:35:58Z Mr. Valent’s project looked at the connections between Moravian, English, Slovakian, Irish and Eastern European fiddling and the Baroque dance repertory. Critic?s Notebook: A Festival Brings the Obscure to the Fore, With a Global Touch 2011-06-20T21:59:21Z Elsewhere Tafelmusik mixed insight, assurance and visceral engagement in works to show stylistic cross-pollination among Baroque composers. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z Built in 1925 as a luxurious layover for travelers on the Orient Express, the iconic structure, like the Croatian capital, is a melding of European styles: Secessionist, Baroque, Art Deco and Art Nouveau. 36 Hours in Zagreb, Croatia 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Between the streets are four Baroque facades, each adorned with three tiers of statues. Sicilian surprises in Palermo 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Its festivals celebrate everything from contemporary art and dance to Baroque and rock music, and artists, ateliers and government initiatives continue to enhance an already vivid scene. In Varazdin, a Thriving Arts Scene Emerges 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Chevalier de Saint-Georges, whose extraordinary life and works have been overlooked for centuries, will be in the spotlight during Seattle Baroque Orchestra’s concert honoring the black musician/composer/athlete. Concert brings to light forgotten works by 18th-century black composer 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z They started a Baroque music ensemble, corralling players and pasting together scores in all-night marathons. The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z And a different configuration, with the superb lutenist Grant Herreid supplanting Mr. Scott as the main continuo player, offered a program of mostly Italian Baroque chamber and vocal works at Bargemusic on Sunday afternoon. Music Review: The Link Between Love and Madness, Explored on a Small Stage 2011-01-04T01:15:03Z There is no such split focus in the work’s many dance scenes: Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante’s choreography is steeped in the niceties of Baroque style. Music Review: Smorgasbord of Mythology and Mayhem 2011-06-15T22:00:30Z For Mr. Heras-Casado the sound world of “Gruppen” was not terribly far from that of his home turf, the music of the Spanish Baroque. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z Like most of today’s period trumpeters, Mr. Thiessen plays on modern copies of Baroque instruments to which holes have been added to improve intonation. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Truth be told, though, until “Mozart Dances,” Mr. Morris hadn’t used much Mozart either, showing more of an inclination toward 20th-century and Baroque composers. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The Baroque revival in the '60s renewed interest in the instrument, and metallic harpsichords even began showing up on Beatles and Rolling Stones songs. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z This musical ensemble, based in France, is best known for its renditions of Baroque operas. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z For a long time these works went largely unseen, casualties of a period during which Baroque, classical and bel canto operas had fallen out of favor. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z The strings are rich, perfectly blended; the beat balances the crispness of a Baroque dance with the creaminess of a serenade. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z For instance, why is dance so much more integral to French Baroque opera than to Italian? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Suspensions were a favorite expressive device in the Baroque era, created when one of two voices moves a step, creating a temporary dissonance that is resolved when the other voice follows suit, restoring consonance. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “It was Baroque, only Baroque,” he recalled of his days singing in the church choir, at school and, quite often, at home. Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z Studying fiddling brought me closer to Baroque music, because there are similarities. Q&A with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who plays with Seattle Symphony Dec. 7 2010-12-02T00:43:00Z An ATM pokes out of a wall right next to the columns of an ancient temple opposite a Baroque church. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Paintings that try to imitate the drama and illusionistic space of the European Baroque are less interesting, but one, from the 1760s, is spectacular. Art Review: At Museum of Biblical Art, the ?Glory of Ukraine? 2010-07-01T21:40:00Z When did the “Baroque” end, and the “Classical” begin? Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z His Violin Concerto also turns to Baroque forms for its two outer movements, while the middle — which he composed first — alludes to blues and the French modernist Olivier Messiaen. Seattle Symphony unveils a new, custom concerto 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Enter the Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck, portraitist extraordinaire and court painter to King Charles I, arguably the greatest arts patron to occupy the English throne. Van Dyck at the Frick, Documenting Aristocracy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Robert Green, an American player and Baroque specialist, said in an interview that “the reason it survived so well is that it managed to reinvent itself.” A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Fusing elements of Renaissance polyphony and Baroque counterpoint with the gauzy, layered chords of the French Impressionists, it is music of beauty, mystery and power. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But the 18th-century church itself — with intricate stonework and frescos in a riot of pastels — is a prime specimen of Baroque exuberance. T Magazine: Village Vanguard 2012-05-17T14:00:33Z “The Baroque is not as unfamiliar to us, the orchestra is not very different to today and there is masses of written music,” she said. Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Baroque trills and guitar distortion share equal space in their records. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z The idea is actually not so unusual: think of all the Renaissance and Baroque composers who wrote settings of Tenebrae services, to be sung in gradually darkened churches during the three days leading to Easter. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z Through his mother, who founded Latvia’s first early music group, he became immersed in Renaissance and Baroque music. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z The school’s Juilliard415 ensemble collaborates with singers and dancers from the school in this Rameau opera, one of the French Baroque masterpieces heard too rarely here. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z His often undistinctive instrumental works, which will fill a program by Juilliard Baroque on Nov. 2, are a staple of classical radio. Review: American Classical Orchestra Revives a Rarely Heard Telemann Masterpiece 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Depending on the score, an inviting neo-Romantic fabric may bear touches of modernist acerbity; vigorous, complex rhythms; themes built on Middle Eastern and Indian modes; Baroque figuration; or the accents of pop and jazz. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z Delnon is aiming not for psychological realism, but for the artificiality of Baroque opera in his production. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Caravaggio, a Baroque master from Italy, was known for his dramatic use of light, novel perspective and the use of ordinary people in religious and mythological scenes. Police seize stolen Caravaggio, make arrests 2010-06-28T16:01:00Z He was inspired to construct this program by his growing awareness that many Baroque composers were doing “advanced, crazy things with rhythms and harmony,” he said. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z They remained untouched by the Renaissance and Baroque eras and even World War II, when Allied forces bombed only the train station. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z She’s eternally consonant, bringing melodies that are steeped in hymn, lullaby, waltz, Baroque opera and Celtic tradition, all radiating a free-floating reverence. On ‘Dark Sky Island,’ Enya Doesn’t Stray Far From Continuity and Comfort 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z “First I was asked to conduct Handel all the time,” Stutzmann recalled, “and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I love Handel, but I’m not a Baroque conductor.’ Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z She played piano and cello, and joined a Baroque recorder quartet in high school. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Los Angeles Baroque Players The period-instrument ensemble plays pieces by Bach, Telemann, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z As director of music and the arts, Wachner oversees the church’s choir, its Baroque orchestra and its contemporary ensemble, which together present hundreds of events each year. Trinity Church’s Conductor Put on Leave Amid Investigation 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z He spoke to the audience about the heritage of the Baroque keyboard suite, then played his own reinvented one, which lasted nearly an hour. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Founded in 1990, the ensemble has won international acclaim for its performances of Baroque repertory. The Week Ahead: Mar. 20 ? 26 2011-03-16T20:54:08Z The work for eight has a touch of the Baroque, and within this world Ms. Boisson, who dances with a lovely spaciousness, was the main attraction. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z The program explores Baroque masterpieces featured in movies like “The Godfather” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z A Baroque masterpiece , missing for more than a century, is hiding in L.A. After Guggenheim removes animal-related pieces from 'Art and China,' what's left? More questions 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Operas known as pasticcios were popular in the Baroque era, often featuring music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z Plan on posting plenty of photos: You’ll find untouched folk architecture throughout the region, as well as perfectly preserved Gothic and Baroque buildings awaiting your lens. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z They have interpreted traditional classical and Romantic works, to brilliant effect, but have also ventured into jazz, Baroque, modernist and experimental genres — commissioning scores, inventing projects and testing their limits. These Sisters Have Transformed the Piano Duo 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The playing was scrappy at times, but it had a joyful quality that made the rough spots easy to overlook, and you had to admire the players’ attention to Baroque phrasing conventions. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z To suggest that Ms. Hallenberg’s artistry has been limited to the heroes and heroines of the Baroque, however, would be unfair. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Van Zweden has never had a true grasp of the fleet litheness of the Classical repertoire, almost never touches Baroque music with the Philharmonic. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But I would like to nominate “The Town With Increasingly Baroque Homicides and an Abnormal Amount of Gang Activity” as a somewhat truer encapsulation. Comfort Viewing: Three Reasons I Love ‘Riverdale’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Founded in 1249, this walled town of 14,500 people has an intact center of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance structures painted in pastels. Overlooked by guidebooks, Slovakia is a worthy European destination without the crowds 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The Baroque strain in Macedonia later comes out in some of the most dazzling sculpture of the Greek world. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z Between those two works are Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G major, and the Symphony in G minor by the Baroque genius' youngest son, Johann Christian Bach. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z There’s nothing unusual about Mr. Morris’s affinity for Baroque dance rhythms. Review: Mark Morris Conducts at Tanglewood, and Offers a Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “Actéon,” just 40 minutes, was presented in a double bill with another Baroque work from the 1680s, Purcell’s popular “Dido and Aeneas.” Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival 2010-03-19T23:00:00Z The ballet music at the start of Act IV is furiously high-spirited, with nods to ecstatic, precisely structured Baroque dances. Music Review: Leon Botstein Conducts ‘Henry VIII’ at Bard Festival 2012-08-20T21:49:34Z They seemed not greatly concerned with ornamenting lines to show off their Baroque bona fides but rather, deeply determined to express the texts. St. Thomas Choir Performs Handel’s 'Messiah' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Early in her career Ms. Mullova sometimes brought a Romantic sensibility to bear in Baroque and Classical repertory. Music Review | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: A Fresh Look at a Familiar Violin Concerto 2010-02-22T08:17:00Z Missionary Zeal, Baroque Style Jesuit missionaries founded settlements in eastern Bolivia using European music as a means of rendering Roman Catholicism more palatable to the indigenous people. Music Review: ‘Bolivian Baroque’ at Columbia University 2013-05-03T23:19:01Z She looks lost in ecstatic reverie, like a figure in a Baroque painting, while the image of terror and death fills the foreground. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z Lavishly built on a monumental scale with shiny gold and glass, the "time-eating" clock aspires to rival the heroic timepieces of the Baroque era. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z In total contrast, an enormous wine urn, or krater, which was excavated in the same tomb, is a typical Greek model that displays a surprising Baroque tendency. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z Sensationalism and control — Rubens is just about as Baroque as Baroque art gets. Peter Paul Rubens was a brilliant sensationalist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z From their origins in the Baroque period, bagatelles were generally light, mellow pieces for solo piano, until Beethoven pushed them to newly profound places. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Baroque and rococo styles, the neo-classical and romantic revolts, realism in the 19th century and modernism at the birth of the 20th – all bonded artists and intellectuals and publics from Poland to Denmark. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z The first half of the program also included Kreisler’s arrangement of Corelli’s Sonata “La Follia,” its Baroque character romanticized with robust piano chords and its trills played with languid elegance by Mr. Beilman. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z After visiting Puebla’s new International Museum of the Baroque, I’m not sure I understand the style any better, but the journey, at least, was thought-provoking. In Mexico, a dazzling museum dives headlong into the Baroque period 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Lean in close to discover the intricate, almost Baroque patterns within. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s not about me being a Baroque specialist as much as it is being an experienced hand at the theatrical side of Handel.” Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z The prevalence of earth and gravy tones evokes an old-masterish palette, while the brushwork parodies Baroque bravura. Art in Review: PIETER SCHOOLWERTH: ?Portraits of Paintings? 2010-12-16T23:41:37Z The repertory that was long Ms. Antonacci’s specialty — Rossini’s serious operas and the declamatory Baroque of Monteverdi and Gluck — has never been popular in America. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z “That was ,” the 69-year-old guru of Baroque music said to falling faces. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z The Kingdom Choir, a British gospel group, will perform, as will the Baroque trumpeter David Blackadder. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The New York Baroque Dance Company, of which Ms. Turocy is co-founder and artistic director, is teaching the Washerwoman through Sunday as part of “Commedia dell’Arte for Children” at the New York Botanical Garden. Spare Times: For Children, for June 5-11 2013-07-04T18:46:51Z Koussevitzky conducted the 1948 premiere of Fine’s bright and brassy Toccata Concertante, which Fine described as having “a certain affinity with the energetic music of the Baroque concertos.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Venice boasts five Baroque churches inspired by different plague surges, each adorned with relevant artwork. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Its canals invite unavoidable comparisons with Venice, its Baroque and neo-Classical architecture recall, Rorschach-style, whatever other European city you know best. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z It isn’t unusual to see a violinist — rather than a maestro — leading a small orchestra in early music, or in works from the Baroque or Classical eras. How One Violinist Conducts an Entire Bel Canto Opera 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Finally, I am focusing on the eras since the late Baroque. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z The orchestra pit will be raised to audience level so that the musicians are visible in the Baroque tradition. L.A. Opera goes minimal with 'Dido and Aeneas,' 'Bluebeard's Castle' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Venetian Baroque architecture meets modern dance in “Dancing Makes Me Joyful,” a collaborative exhibition by contemporary artist Lena Liv and dancer and choreographer Lindy Nsingo. Dancer Lindy Nsingo and Artist Lena Liv Collaborate at Venice’s Palazzo Flangini 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z In Ms. Wiancko’s version the music, already a showcase for Baroque display, took on contemporary techniques, jazzy harmonies, subtle percussion and exuberant stomps. Music Review: A String Ensemble at Play: Body Language and Sheer Exuberance 2011-01-09T23:01:27Z Mr. Steel did say that two of the five productions would be on a smaller scale — Baroque works or the like — and would play in theaters of, say, 300 to 900 seats. New York City Opera Plans to Leave Lincoln Center 2011-05-21T00:04:16Z When you watch a Baroque opera on repeat, it's utterly lovely but somehow doesn't quite stand up to day in day out scrutiny. Understudying: the waiting game 2013-01-28T19:17:50Z Out of an abundance of caution, ensembles avoided repertoire like the immense works of Mahler and instead turned to smaller-scale music, sometimes rarities and often from the Classical and Baroque eras. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Three of the five movements are inspired by forms and patterns of Baroque dances, like the rhythmically lively Gavotte. Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z As I walked through its medieval and Baroque core, sleek trams whooshed past church facades, and gaggles of students filled the bars of Place Ste.-Claire. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z By and large, Baroque composers didn’t write down many instructions on how to perform a piece, so learning how to do so means studying the period and the composer’s style. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z But the quartet is also a homage to Purcell, ending with a “Chacony,” a series of variations over a repeated bass line, that reveals Britten’s affinity with that English Baroque composer. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z Whether modern or Baroque music is on the program, Esfahani’s sense of purpose remains the same. A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The has developed a yearly tradition of including a program that puts the career of Johann Sebastian Bach — who for many is still Baroque music entire — into context with the work of his predecessors. Music Review: Before Bach Arrived, Others Led the Way 2011-08-05T22:37:21Z This music — like Poulenc’s otherwise very dissimilar concerto — commutes fascinatingly between Baroque and Modernist thoughts. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The beautiful costumes by Han Feng tweak Baroque fashion with Chinese styles and fabrics. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Its Baroque references connect medieval France to the glittery splendor of 17th-century allegorical court masques. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “I was considered completely unserious because I used Baroque music, electronic guitar, pop songs.” Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z French Baroque Rays of Light Pierce Lenten Shadows The soprano Montserrat Figueras, who died in November, was an important figure in the early-music world. Music Review: Tenet Performs Couperin?s Lessons for Lent 2012-03-11T22:13:39Z "I think it's a very exciting discovery," said Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where he specializes in Baroque paintings from northern Europe. How a long-lost Rembrandt painting found its way to the Getty Museum 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z With their inclusive and eclectic tastes in chamber repertoire, Harrington and the other original members were known for programs that included anything from Baroque fare to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Kronos Quartet returns to Seattle for first gig at the Neptune 2012-03-22T20:10:07Z But DiDonato also provides some answers herself with this recording of Baroque music, divided between arias depicting hostility and those devoted to serenity. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The charismatic Mr. Christie exposed him to a sense of the vivid theatricality of French Baroque opera and Handel. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z The Joslyn’s collection includes exceptional examples of work from the ancient world, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, modern and contemporary art, and pieces inspired by the American West. In Omaha, a Progressive Approach to Free Time 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z His Five Pieces for String Quartet, from 1923, is a modern treatment of a Baroque suite, with each movement inspired by a specific dance style. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The “Battle” series of terra-cotta works similarly sends up the histories of “heroic” Baroque paintings and war monuments, turning armed conflict into a frenzied, sketchy and messy affair. Lucio Fontana, a Sculptor but So Perverse 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Harrison's sonatas, which filter the Baroque through a lyrical 1930s experimentalism, are early examples of what became a multicultural West Coast sound. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z On the Paris Opera’s Web site for the production the company wrote, “Ivan Alexandre returns to this production in a Baroque spirit.” Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z It’s a modernist piece set to Ravel’s 1920 orchestral suite referring to friends who died in World War I and, beyond them, to the social dances of the Baroque era. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z Los Angeles Baroque Players Period instrument ensemble plays pieces by Bach, Telemann, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z We digressed for lunch in Lamego, mainly to see its famous Baroque staircase, which wraps around fountains and patches of garden as it climbs high, high up a hill. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z The first half of this program was an homage to François Couperin, the French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z Some of my ornamentation was corrected by Baroque musicians. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Each movement in “Partita” does relate to the original Baroque dance, but they are abstractions, holding seeds of those original meters and feels, but quickly moving further. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Bach will be performed on Baroque period instruments played by early-music specialists. Classical roundup: Guests at the symphony, Schumann's birthday, a Bach cantata 2010-06-03T20:12:00Z A French Baroque opera that puts an aesthetic gloss on colonial encounters, refitted with street choreography: a recipe for awkwardness, at best. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In “Orlando,” her vocal part includes distorted Baroque vocalizations, with extensive ornamentation. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Some 19th-century libretti are very flat and simple, and the Baroque is a world very much deeper and richer.” Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z He then created the Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1992, eventually combining them. At the Symphony: pre-Classical classics, and a rising violin star 2011-05-12T19:26:09Z Ms. Podger’s warm, clean sound, stenciled phrasing and rhythmic vivacity in this program of works by Bach, Tartini and Biber showed why she has become one of the leading performers on Baroque violin. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It also offers an easily recognizable signpost: a short melodic figure that crops up periodically, like the ritornello of a Baroque or Classical rondo. Music Review: Kirill Gerstein at Peoples? Symphony Concert 2010-05-10T20:47:00Z At this point, I would typically have headed to the main level where the art shifts gear to the dramatic Baroque of which Spanish masters were among the standard bearers. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The piece had been part of a temporary exhibition at the Getty Museum in 2008, “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture.” LACMA's 50th anniversary gifts include its first work by Bernini 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Wilson is a period performance specialist, but the periods he’s interested in aren’t Baroque. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Baroque music provides a staid background in piquant contrast to the quiet lunacy taking place onstage. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z Next will be a Baroque program in March, location to be determined. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The six dancers provided good electricity, and Mr. Stafford’s choreography seemed, to the untrained eye, a plausible reinterpretation and extension of Baroque dance. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “In a way, the symphony orchestras don’t dare to play this repertoire,” she said of the Baroque. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It would hang well alongside that museum's terrifying Baroque treasure, Salvator Rosa's painting of the skeletal figure of Death approaching a new-born child. Turner prize: too respectable? 2012-09-28T12:23:05Z Counting his work on Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” and the Baroque pastiche “The Enchanted Island,” Mr. Sams now has three strikes against him at the Met. Review: ‘The Merry Widow,’ Revisited at the Met 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The “Baroque and Wine” series audience is not always the Symphony’s most demonstrative, but this time there was an ovation for every piece, complete with shouts and whistles. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Might that also account for the relative lack of florid singing in French Baroque opera in comparison with Italian Baroque? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Now at the summit of choral artistry, the Monteverdi Choir and another Gardiner group, the English Baroque Soloists, bring the Vespers to Carnegie Hall for the penultimate day of the Before Bach festival. Classical & Opera Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Varazdin Baroque Evenings, for example, is a 12-day spectacle in late September of more than two dozen concerts highlighting Baroque classical music. In Varazdin, a Thriving Arts Scene Emerges 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center offered a lithe performance of the Trio Sonata on Sunday afternoon, part of its annual Baroque Festival. Music Review: Chamber Music Society’s Baroque Festival 2013-12-09T21:54:29Z With his light, lyric voice he has excelled in Bach, Baroque opera and song repertory, especially Schubert. New Recordings: Britten’s Serenade and Nocturne by Tenor Mark Padmore 2012-07-08T03:53:15Z Behind and beneath its unassuming exterior are a perfectly preserved Baroque interior, the original ritual bath with fresh water from an underground stream, a slaughterhouse and the bread ovens. A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens its doors in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T11:31:00Z Baroque specialists in particular may bristle at his occasionally counterintuitive voicing, with unconventional emphasis on particular notes and phrases, and his rubato — rhythmic manipulation that sometimes pushes the meter toward unrecognizability. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Like Prague, Olomouc has a spot on the Unesco World Heritage list, breathtaking Gothic and Baroque buildings and a famous astronomical clock. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Here, performing on a period instrument, she offers a sweet-toned, passionate performance of Schumann’s infrequently heard Violin Concerto, elegantly accompanied by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Classical Playlist: Carlos Kalmar, Alexander Lingas and More 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The meaning of the names didn’t stop him: as someone with a longstanding passion for early music, he would immediately have recognized 415 as an allusion to Baroque pitch. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z It is surely good that pianists are no longer scolded for playing Bach, Handel and other Baroque masters on their modern instruments. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z After recently moving his clothing production to Italy, he became fascinated by the intricacy and flair of the Renaissance and Baroque clothing he glimpsed in old Italian portraits. Inside Telfar Clemens’s Riotous Palazzo Party 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Organs are often constructed to accommodate a specific genre of music, like German Baroque or French Romantic. Music Review: French, but Conversant in Many Genres 2011-05-09T21:14:58Z The Venice Baroque Orchestra’s program on Friday, led from the harpsichord by the group’s founder, Andrea Marcon, actually offered more than the advertised Vivaldi. Review: Venice and Vivaldi, Center Stage at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Finally, two fiery pieces by Scriabin provide transfixing context for an arrangement by Jonathan Keren of a Baroque piece for orchestra by Rebel, the aptly titled “Chaos” — teeming, unpredictable and astonishing music. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z While he is sometimes criticized for his unorthodox interpretations of Baroque and Classical repertoire, the drama and passion he brings is enormously compelling. Organ rock star Cameron Carpenter in Seattle on April 25 2014-04-16T19:48:13Z Why were there no other visitors gawking at the immense, desk-size timepieces, covered with gilt figurines, dating from the Baroque era? Overnighter: In Bratislava, Slovakia, a Chance to Enjoy Local Flavors Without the Crowds ? Overnighter 2012-03-02T23:25:20Z But then, even in this boom time for early music in New York, where could you hope to find the four virtuosos on Baroque trumpet that Bach requires in that blessed cantata? Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z And more than four centuries after her birth, the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who carved out a successful career against the odds, is given a landmark one-woman show. Special Report: The New Art Season: The Renaissance Flowers Again 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z Emerging from it, you make another leap, this one a back flip to a Pan-European Baroque. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Work on the Baroque mansion that houses the museum, the world’s largest Picasso collection, dragged scandalously on and on. The Picasso Museum Reopens in Paris 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The 17th-century Italian Baroque painter is not simply a rare example of a female artist from the period; she also highlighted women, mostly biblical heroines, in her pictures. Review | In the galleries: Building on an artwork expressed via different media 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Escape the Handel that surrounds us every holiday season with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s annual holiday presentations of that other Baroque great, Bach. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z What would a Baroque pastiche be without a star turn? Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z But the other day in his studio in the Bronzeville district on this city’s South Side, he took me upstairs to show off some painting implements certainly unavailable in Renaissance Venice or Baroque Amsterdam. Kerry James Marshall, a New Master Repainting Art History 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Her best digital collages, “The Blue Stair” and “Brooklyn with Baroque Sky,” manipulate photographic material to the point where it looks distinctly painterly. Prographica’s ‘Bleak Beauty’: fine art from the ‘unpromising’ 2013-02-21T22:58:33Z Lecce, a Baroque masterpiece of a city built from cream-colored limestone, is often referred to as “the Florence of the South.” Drifting Through Puglia, Italy’s Heel 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But he seemed to settle in beautifully on Tuesday, bringing in the period orchestra New York Baroque Incorporated, a group of budding stars, and conducting from the harpsichord. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “We were just really inspired by them, and although some were over the top in their Baroque extravagance, there was just an exuberance about them.” A new compendium of garden elements But if genres were not hard and fast in the Baroque era, still less were the makeups of the orchestras and the numbers and balances of the performing forces. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z The evening’s centerpiece is the world premiere of his “Chacony,” with music played live by the Repast Baroque Ensemble and the Shanghai Quartet. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Everything about the English Baroque architecture and Dutch-style interiors seems to embrace you. Designer Brian Sawyer Visits England's Stately Homes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “The Enchanted Island” offers an ingenious solution to the Met’s “Baroque problem”: How can a yawning, 3,800-seat arena designed for Wagner and Verdi hospitably host grandly conceived but intimately scaled Baroque opera? ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Operas by Monteverdi and other Baroque composers often feature roles written for castrati -- male opera singers who were castrated at a young age to preserve their boy voices. Allison Williams in 'Peter Pan' continues a cross-dressing tradition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z If the Baroque artwork could not be shipped to Rome, the incoming exhibition would be in peril. National Gallery forced to cancel its landmark ‘Genoa’ exhibition because of worsening pandemic conditions, travel problems 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z It has vegetable plots, a sauna built of plywood and mosquito nets on the lawn of a Baroque castle and a skateboard halfpipe in the main exhibition space, next to a collective printing press. Documenta Was a Whole Vibe. Then a Scandal Killed the Buzz. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z And he’s now pushed further back in time, releasing his interpretation of the pinnacle of the Baroque cello: Bach’s six suites for the instrument. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Wine is the specialty at this buzzing bar and restaurant decorated in a funky mix of industrial, vintage, Baroque and bachelor-pad style. Five Places to Go in Zurich 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z As Gould recalled in a radio interview in 1963, he was swept up with Baroque music at the time of the Brahms performance and trying to flesh out Baroque elements in Brahms. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Baroque facades, many with enclosed wooden balconies, line the roads, with stone steps serving as pedestrian thoroughfares over steeper terrain. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z Of special note is a production of Telemann’s “Orpheus” in an intimate space ideal for Baroque , the theater at El Museo del Barrio in Harlem. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z Unfortunately, despite many good moments from the choir and the strings of the period band Baroque in the Fields, the performance did not entirely measure up. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Baroque ornamentation is fun, but here, it’s about taking time and not doing anything too flashy. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In 2014, the poet and critic Stephen Burt, writing for the Boston Review, identified a strain of contemporary poetry deeply influenced by Moore; he dubbed it the “nearly Baroque.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A gallery hung with late nudes based on figures from Rubens or Boucher feels more like a Baroque bake-off, or a Rococo taffy pull than suave homage to a past master. Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z He also mentioned that when he ran a Baroque ensemble in his early days in Montreal, he programmed unfamiliar helpings of Zelenka, the overlooked Czech master. For Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Questions of Vision 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Late Sicilian Baroque was a defiant answer to nature’s wrath, an ambitious affirmation of wealth and faith, delivered by an all-powerful local aristocracy. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z Still, it’s worth scrambling expectations from time to time, and there is a certain pleasure in encountering Baroque paintings and sculptures in the purified realm of a contemporary art museum. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z While many of the movements are based on traditional Baroque dance styles, only in the Suite No. 4 does Handel adhere to the typical structure of allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z And stay tuned for the Symphony's "Baroque and Northwest Wine" series next month — do we sense a bibulous trend? Fall Arts Guide | Classical music: Beethoven, Bach and Bacchus 2010-09-08T06:05:00Z By the time she graduated, in 2010, and arrived at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen for her master’s degree, Ms. Davidsen had decided that she was a mezzo-soprano, and she would sing Baroque music. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Especially in the first half, the program offered some of the Baroque era’s choicest morsels, including selections from “Orfeo” and from Lully’s “Phaeton.” ArtsBeat: Star-Studded Early Music in Toronto 2011-03-04T20:30:25Z For most of the 19th and 20th centuries a similar myth prevailed: that the two masters of the Baroque in Northern Europe, J.S. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z There are also live musical contributions from the forceful Kakudji, who has been attracting much attention in European Baroque music circles, and others. The incomparable political art of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Singers still face limitations on their repertory for logistical reasons: A Wagnerian soprano might struggle with Baroque coloratura, and most Baroque specialists probably can’t project over a Wagnerian orchestra. Review: Philippe Jaroussky Breaks Away From Baroque Boundaries 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Baroque music from this orchestra and its principal conductor, Bernard Labadie, who deliver two works by Handel and four by Vivaldi, including two settings of the “Salve Regina.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z He was born in 1685, when the Baroque period was thriving yet vestiges of the Renaissance age of polyphonic music were lingering. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z Baroque of ages Handel's operas, writes Nicholas Kenyon, cut to the heart. Handel: Opera Arias ? review 2010-12-23T21:45:01Z Bell is only the second music director of the Academy, leading and playing with the ensemble in a growing repertoire of contemporary as well as Baroque and Classical works. Joshua Bell to play ‘tasty’ menu at Benaroya Feb. 5 2014-01-31T21:18:57Z “I need absolute calm, and so I have my headphones playing Baroque music or Vivaldi.” Showtime at the Musée d’Orsay: Watching Varnish Dry 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z It is highlighted by the extraordinary stage environment designed by Bryan Boyd, Deborah Sorensen and others, which serves as a craggy magician's cave and a theater-within-a-theater for projections of atmospheric French Baroque landscape paintings. Sound Theatre conjures energetic version of 'The Illusion' 2012-08-23T20:58:07Z CE: French Baroque opera also seems to rely upon different vocal types from those of Italian opera seria. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z He brought new productions, several world premieres and a new focus on the Baroque to City Opera. Irwin Schneiderman, Philanthropic Guide for City Opera, Dies at 88 2011-11-17T04:15:06Z Christian Curnyn, a Baroque opera specialist, made an impressive house debut in the pit, leading a buoyant, tightly wrought and colorful interpretation. Music Review | 'Partenope': Gender-Bending ?Partenope? at City Opera 2010-04-04T22:12:00Z And it invariably had to go with old, not modern, instruments: recorders, valveless horns, theorbos, violins with gut strings and Baroque bows. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z EMG's executive director, August Denhard, praises I-90 for presenting fresh ideas for a repertoire "extending from the very dawn of the Baroque era to the works of Bach and Boccherini." Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z But the one given Thursday night at the Hyde Park Union Church by Baroque Band was special. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z Brown taps into Baroque and Expressionist art’s history of sex and violence. 'Creature' is a smart exhibition at the Broad museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z With its Bach, Revisited series, the Miller Theater at Columbia University says it seeks to prompt a dialogue between contemporary composers and this Baroque master. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Baroque music tends to be a speaking language, and it is a language that the great English tenor Ian Bostridge understands and communicates perfectly. Review: Baroque music, superbly played and sung, at Benaroya 2011-05-05T16:06:05Z It was a small but telling scene at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, where Mr. Hogwood was holding a master class on Baroque music. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z When the National Gallery of Art postponed its landmark exhibition on Baroque Italian art last year, it was an early and shocking signal of the magnitude of the coming global pandemic. National Gallery forced to cancel its landmark ‘Genoa’ exhibition because of worsening pandemic conditions, travel problems 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The Baroque & Wine series, a Symphony chamber series and an organ-recital series — all three concerts apiece — round out the musical offerings. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-25T21:49:03Z A masterpiece of Baroque painting, missing for more than a century, is hiding somewhere in L.A. A storied art collection shrouded in mystery will anchor new UC Irvine museum 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The restoration of the twin Baroque fountains in the Piazza Farnese was an expression of an intervention that “solders the ancient to modernity,” much like fashion is intertwined with culture, Ms. Biagiotti said. Fashion Legacies of a Different Kind 2012-11-15T06:07:03Z The baritone Daniel Teadt sings the title role in an auditorium said by some who know it to be acoustically and atmospherically ideal for Baroque opera. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Porto also features sumptuous Baroque churches and civic buildings, a bustling real-world market hall, atmospheric lanes of gloriously tiled houses, a variety of good restaurants, appealing boutiques and quirky but worthwhile museums. Visit Porto, one of Europe’s most alluring ‘second cities’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Whitewashed buildings with wrought-iron balconies filled narrow lanes, along with numerous Renaissance and Baroque churches — testaments to the town’s wealth generated long ago from the fishing and salt trades. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Fascinated with the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque works among which he grew up, young Michel switched from pharmacy to dealing in antiques. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Audiences are still eager to learn the great lesson of the Baroque, that emotion is focused rather than blocked by the restraints of form. Music Review: From Two Stars, Handel?s Sober Side 2011-04-04T21:52:01Z The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra plays with wit and snap, and the cast is as vigorous as the conducting. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z Savall is a performer, teacher and researcher credited with starting the current wave of appreciation and interest in historical music of the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Jordi Savall performance added in Seattle 2012-10-25T20:46:05Z A grand central courtyard with no obvious means of access, surrounded by no fewer than four monumental staircases, was "perhaps a little excessive, even for a Baroque monarch", Mr Barber said. George III drawing is uncovered 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Baroque style was about illusion and extravagance, and opera — then a new medium, multidimensional and multisensory — was perhaps its ideal art form. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z He was indeed a master of Baroque instrumental music. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z Among them is the Handel Festival in Halle, May 25 through June 10, a Baroque homage to the German-born composer in and around the city where he was born. A Year of Cultural Celebrations in Europe 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z His lithe melodic embellishments worked, given that Couperin, in particular, presages a kind of French Baroque bebop to begin with. Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, a member of the Jupiter Ensemble, does not distinguish between the Baroque era and the age of rock ’n’ roll. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “I tell people that if Baroque isn’t to your taste, then come see the Rossini, and if Rossini isn’t to your taste, then come see the premiere of Hosokawa,” he said. Gotham Chamber Opera Has Rare Works and Many Venues 2013-12-24T21:40:58Z But Ms. Jones saw a affinity between the visually and technologically obsessed Baroque period and our own time. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z He made hundreds of recordings with the AAM and was hugely influential in giving Baroque music new life. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Christie has high expectations that this main hall, a modular space that can be shaped to order for the programs, including semi-staged operas, will have ideal acoustics for Baroque music. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The choir of this church, which presented one of the first American “Messiah” performances in 1770, teams up with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and soloists for its annual, reliably masterful concert of Handel’s oratorio. A New Yorker’s Guide to the Silvery Sounds of the Season 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Baroque music very much suits our time because it has so much drama, so much tragedy, so much power, so much consolation at the same time. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Typical of Baroque concertos, it is in several short movements, but Penderecki turns small forms into large. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z In its early days the English Concert concentrated on recreating Baroque and Classical timbres and balances, and observing the details of ornamentation and other period concerns. Music Review: Period Music, Played With Freewheeling Touches 2010-10-16T01:24:00Z The first half of the program offered by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, a trim, distinguished German period-instrument ensemble, featured works more of peppy utility than of striking originality and inspiration. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z Nor did Rebel’s readings test any new theories about Baroque style or take any radical interpretive turns. Music in Review 2011-03-28T23:29:12Z She was partly inspired by the very real Artemesia Gentileschi, one of the few women ever to be admitted to the closed boys’ club of Italian master painters of the Baroque era. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z For all that, there are fine moments, one of them being a second-act aria in which Mr. Morrison went whole-hog Baroque, with a churning accompaniment as well as ample embellishment. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z “The great legacy of the Baroque was that it was not ashamed of trying to influence people,” Mr. Eliasson said. Olafur Eliasson Envisions a Spectacle in Versailles 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Baroque hall replete with gilded accents, tapestries and a frescoed ceiling hinted at the richness to come. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z But Baroque operas depict characters at war with the display of their own feelings. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z Also, because the school has only two students studying the Baroque oboe, Gonzalo X. Ruiz played the third oboe line in a few pieces. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z Even with a jazz quartet in the pit alongside the orchestra — Blanchard’s answer to a Baroque continuo — there’s little classic swing in the mix. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, both presentations proved antiquarian musically, in performances anchored by the excellent period-instrument Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; and more or less progressive theatrically, with settings and stage action updated to the modern era. Review: Exploring Captivity in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ and Mozart’s ‘Entführung’ at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Since then, some Belgian gallerists, such as Office Baroque, have relocated from Brussels to Antwerp. At Antwerp Art Weekend, Collectors Buy With Their Gut 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z And stately black-and-white photographs of Brazilian Baroque sculptures by Marcel Gautherot, the French photographer better known for documenting the construction of Brasília, expand the show’s focus from Europe to colonies in the new world. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The schedule also includes the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, which will perform Max Richter’s “Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed,” a contemporary expansion of the popular set of Baroque concertos. A Season's Worth of Music in a Weekend at Knoxville's Big Ears Festival 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The 12 sonatas of Opus 1 by Giustini are harmonic links between the late Baroque and early Classical periods. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z Baroque in scale, and slyly using a synthesiser as continuo, it interweaves unaccompanied solos with formal movements of great melodic beauty. LPO/Alsop 2010-04-20T21:30:00Z For Kienholz and for so many other artists here, the Baroque had become a kind of realism. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z When Matthias Schulz, the general director of the Staatsoper in Berlin, programmed a Baroque festival in his first season leading the company, he didn’t go for the usual suspects. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Baroque Spring will feature a mixture of music, drama and comedy, with highlights including actor Dominic West reading poetry from the period and a celebration of the 'Genius of Bach'. Radio 3 to host Baroque Spring 2013-01-31T17:40:21Z Rubens understood, amid unprecedented violence, that the times had turned the excesses of the Baroque into a mode of realism. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes From the Hill Collection” is on view through June 15 at the Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, frick.org. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z These days, the solo is most commonly played on a modern piccolo trumpet, a small, tightly coiled instrument — with two feet of tubing to the Baroque trumpet’s seven — that produces an incisive, citrusy-bright sound. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Baroque boom had set in, and the time was ripe for a Baroque backlash. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the tunes are full of manic invention and nutty juxtapositions: Baroque pomp and trash-can drum sounds, rockabilly twang and digitally chopped-up vocals. Lorde Rules a Year-End List 2013-12-13T18:39:26Z In store for next season is a wider range of repertoire that plays on the relationships between the Baroque, classical and early Romantic periods, with the music of Bach as a recurrent theme. The agony and the ecstasy: an evening of gorgeous music by suffering composers 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z This is what I learned from the Baroque way of playing. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The Museo del Barrio’s theater, which Mr. Steel said had a pit that could accommodate up to 25 instruments, was ideal for Baroque opera. City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z Its current Baroque exhibition, curated by Luc Tuymans, puts Caravaggio alongside contemporary art, and a new slanting tower, by Rem Koolhaas, delivers acres of gallery space and the disco of my dreams. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert’s process links him not just with photography’s origins as an index of light, however, but with Baroque artists like Caravaggio and Georges de La Tour for whom light was alchemically symbolic. David Gilbert’s ‘The Secret Garden,’ Photography as Dreamscape 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “It’s not like Baroque, it’s not Mozart,” he said. Massaging 1,000 Voices Into Lincoln Center’s Choral Miracle 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The choir included male altos, with a whiteish, trumpeting tone; the Trinity Baroque Orchestra was composed of period instruments, with a reedy tang. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Lubimov is known for playing an unusually broad repertoire, from Baroque music on early instruments to 20th century and contemporary works. Russian Pianist Receives First Cage Cunningham Fellowship 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z A recent performance at the Stone in Manhattan showed off the hallmarks of this music, built on the maqam scales of Arabic music, with jazzy flights of improvisation and fleeting echoes of early Baroque ornamentation. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The Music of the Baroque chorus and orchestra will perform Bach's Mass in B minor as one of two programs of J.S. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z Part of that is about being a singer, and about the place that we hold in the music community — which is not what it was in the Baroque. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z This is true of “Nijinsky,” which combines a photograph of the dancer’s androgynous face with the painted visage of a Baroque goddess. Art in Review: JOHN O?REILLY: ?Recent Montage? 2011-06-30T21:24:36Z Re-emerging with a Baroque take on a myth about the power of music felt appropriate. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z In Mexico, the Baroque left its most indelible mark on the colonial city of Puebla, two hours southeast of Mexico City. In Mexico, a dazzling museum dives headlong into the Baroque period 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z As for the musical composition, performed by an orchestra of six, “Oratorio” layers myriad genres — gospel, jazz, Baroque and a range of pop styles — to create harmony where cacophony might otherwise exist. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This Baroque artist shared with the great Italian an ability to breathe life into still material. Grinling Gibbons: the wood-carver who took root in England 2010-09-08T09:51:00Z In his improvisation, Sollima, who is both a post-Minimalist composer championed by Philip Glass and a specialist in Baroque music, was cellist as inspired clown. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In addition, the performers offered an improvisation in each half of the program, drawing thread from the Baroque music at hand but venturing far beyond the period, even into modern modes of expression. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z Andrew Manze Leads Baroque Themes and Variations: The renowned purveyor of maverick approaches to early music makes his Seattle debut in a program of Corelli, Tallis, Tippett, Elgar and Williams. Classical roundup: an early-music maverick, a 'Three-Cornered Hat' and Caspar Babypants 2010-04-29T20:11:00Z "La Sapienza" opens with stunning shots of the Italian countryside and Baroque architecture, only to transition to an industrial cityscape comprised of heinous Postmodern housing projects and office buildings. Baroque architect reaches across centuries to influence another in 'La Sapienza' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z All three presentations include School of Music students prominently involved in the production, both as an unusually active chorus and as instrumentalists playing with PMW’s Baroque orchestra. UW music school, Pacific MusicWorks join forces for ‘Semele’ 2014-05-09T19:58:13Z And then he’s off — though this isn’t the headlong French Baroque dazzle of “Barricades,” but soulful, often sober Italian and English pieces of the 16th and 17th centuries. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The six songs of Mr. Dargel’s “Hold Yourself Together” matched his cool, measured vocals and vulnerable or rueful lyrics with Wil Smith’s playfully Baroque synthesizer lines and James Moore’s mannerly guitar. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z Marc Minkowski, the renowned Baroque maestro who until last year directed the Opéra National de Bordeaux, where the ballet premiered, recalled: “Angelin said, ‘I have a friend who’s one of the Daft Punks.’ Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z You cross the historic Charles Bridge, dotted every few meters with its parade of haunting Baroque statues. At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z This Baroque & Wine series event offers wine tasting from 6:30-7:45 p.m. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z When the Venice Baroque Orchestra visited Zankel Hall a year ago, it showed off the virtuosity of its individual members and of the group as a whole. Music Review: Philippe Jaroussky Performs at Metropolitan Museum 2014-02-26T22:22:56Z But he nonetheless directed attention to the mellow beauty of a keyless wood flute, which Suga played with a rich expressivity that demonstrated the Baroque instrument's commonality with the ancient Japanese shakuhachi. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The picture is dynamically composed, reminiscent of a Baroque painting, as tension-packed as Caravaggio’s “The Taking of Christ.” Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Tour the Baroque pavilion and gardens before stopping by the wine shop for a bottle or three. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z It is an astounding, assertive likeness made around 1575 when the artist was an ambitious upstart from the sticks of Crete, struggling for a foothold in the highly competitive cultural milieu of Baroque Rome. ‘Men in Armor’: El Greco and Pulzone at the Frick Collection 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Carter was intrigued by the modern harpsichords that became briefly popular after World War II, before they became obsolete with the rage for historically minded performances of Baroque music. Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I had two different choirs and I was still doing recitals and chamber music, and I was already conducting my Baroque ensemble. After a Punishing Sprint, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Can Celebrate 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Benjamin Britten’s centennial — the focus of this year’s nine-day program, along with, oddly enough, Baroque and modern Italian music — was the occasion for an immersion in the 20th-century British repertory. Music Review: The Chelsea Music Festival Opens With a Homage 2013-06-18T19:48:56Z What made you say yes to a Baroque opera? Basil Twist in Paris: When Puppets Meet Baroque Opera 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Pope Benedict is comfortable with plainchant and the unaccompanied vocal traditions of the Renaissance and Baroque that emerged from it. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z Bach, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for its final Baroque & Wine program of the season. At the Symphony: pre-Classical classics, and a rising violin star 2011-05-12T19:26:09Z This year, the series, from June 7 to July 5, features vocalists and instrumentalists performing everything from Baroque to contemporary masterpieces. In Transit: At Festival de Saint-Denis, Hits From the Classical Canon 2011-05-25T10:00:18Z The Scherzo, with its obtuse iteration of a Baroque bass line, lives on color contrast, and the Philharmonic players offered plenty, from cobweblike string tremolos to gleaming brass evoking the tolling of feast-day bells. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Built in the colonial Baroque style with a blue-tiled dome rising behind high walls, it was named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z Mr. Rabinovich performed it with uncommon sensitivity and feeling for the elements of Baroque style and dance forms that inspired Brahms. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The Sauli commission is, indeed, quite bawdy, although the sex is wrapped in the scholarly moral erudition so common to Baroque art. Getty purchases Gentileschi's radiant 'Danaë,' now owns 2 of 3 paintings in a set 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Stravinsky, in his elegant Serenade in A, which opened the program, also toyed with Baroque forms, reflecting the 18th century through a 20th century prism. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z “The group was completely up to the demands of singing this Baroque music.” Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In many ways, “The Look of Love” resembles not just “Pepperland” but most of Morris’s work to vocal music, whether Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys or Baroque opera. Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z I doubt, for example, that many Chelsea galleries would be willing or able to turn their spaces into a full-time rehearsal hall for Baroque opera. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Lower East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Despite Baroque opera’s remarkable recent surge in popularity, few 18th-century works, with their outsize proportions and elegant aesthetics, seem poised to enter the Met’s regular repertory. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Just an hour long — its third act is believed to be lost — it distills the purity and passion of the French Baroque. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z Under the Oaks Cellist Andrew Shulman, et al., perform chamber music from the Baroque era to the present day. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Aug. 27-Sept. 3: John Williams with the L.A. Phil and more 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Muti has shown, time and again, that Verdi’s settings of texts are hardly less responsive and refined than the French Baroque “tragédies en musique” of Lully and Rameau. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Joseph Cermatori, an assistant professor of English at Skidmore College, is the author of “Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater,” which will be published in November by Johns Hopkins University Press. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The orchestra’s clear, transparent textures emphasized the work’s debt to the Baroque, and Ms. Josefowicz’s reedy tone blended in beautifully. Music in Review: ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY 2011-03-07T21:45:11Z It was near the start of Calixto Bieito’s production of Rameau’s “Platée” at the Stuttgart Opera, and the orchestra was playing the sharp, seductive melodies of this comic standard of the French Baroque. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z Released last year, it delves into French and Italian Baroque depictions of the mythical Amazons. Review: At Carnegie, Going Beyond the Rapid-Fire Vivaldi 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The opera was performed in the intimate Dom Pedro V Theater, a choice venue for Baroque opera built in the mid-19th century and seating fewer than 300, a lingering sign of Portuguese rule. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z This is Baroque music as hard-rock jam: driving, intense, dizzying, two musicians facing off in a brash battle that raises both their levels. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet Saint-Saëns, who was fascinated by the French Baroque, particularly the keyboard music of Rameau, paid tribute to that period by always keeping the emotions in “Henry VIII” firmly regulated. Music Review: Leon Botstein Conducts ‘Henry VIII’ at Bard Festival 2012-08-20T21:49:34Z And Mendelssohn’s fascination with Baroque music — captured in this Bachian, if broad-boned, Prelude and Fugue — made his appearance here seem thematically apt, if peripheral. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z The dome of a Baroque church, Santa Maria in Campitelli, peers down from the next piazza like a nosy matron. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z The Städel’s permanent collection reflects 700 years of mostly European masterpieces, from the Middle Ages through Modernism by way of the Baroque and German expressionism. ‘Citizens’ Museum’ of Frankfurt Celebrates 200 Years 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The Horn Concerto dates from 2008 and is altogether more Baroque and exuberant. Penderecki: Violin Concerto No 1; Horn?Concerto Winterreise 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z “And, for a Baroque chorus, it’s one of the biggest tests to be able to master a piece like this.” At the Armory, Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ Are Newly Immersive 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Within it all, squeaking metal yielded a high-pitched ostinato, and the ever-so-slightly-clattery rumble of the train was the high-tech equivalent of a Baroque basso continuo. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z But with “A Spring Fling!” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center on Wednesday evening, the Repast Baroque Ensemble came dangerously close to false advertising. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z At the Palazzo Barberini, home to Italy’s national old masters collection, I was the only visitor to newly opened galleries hosting a large show of Baroque painting and clock making. Alone in the Temporary New Ruins of Rome 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z And long before it became fashionable, he demonstrated how to juxtapose new and old music, sometimes very old: He conducted a raft of Baroque pieces. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Coming to the Baroque cello after a morning of Philharmonic rehearsals with his modern setup Guadagnini always took a while to adjust. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z The exploratory energy of the Baroque era, which saw the evils of colonization joined at the hip with the probing spirit of liberating adventure, finds an exquisite new home here. A lively dance by Pia Fries 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z And Tuesday, Nicholas McGegan arrived at the Bowl for an evening devoted to two evergreen front-runners of the Baroque Hit Parade: Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and Handel's "Water Music." At Hollywood Bowl, Nicholas McGegan is the man for all seasons With a glinting, coppery tone, Capuçon gave the opening phrase — a Baroque homage that nods to Bach’s Invention No. 13 — a cunning flicker of darkness and light. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s not unusual to encounter a violin soloist who also conducts the orchestra, particularly in the Baroque repertoire. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Bach and Mendelssohn show up in “Partita,” just as “Flûte en Suite” digs up a series of Baroque dances. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z At the Armory, Mr. Audi is exploring ideas for Baroque music, mindful that anything presented in the Drill Hall requires sophisticated amplification. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z His recordings with the quintet include “Baroque Brass,” “An Empire Brass Christmas” and “American Brass Band Journal.” Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z These dips into Baroque Venice were delightful, but they were no escape from our time. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The performances, beginning June 19, took place in the Baroque “Gartentheater” of the magnificent Herrenhäuser Gardens, which belonged to the kings of Hanover. Wagner in the Parking Lot as Opera Returns to Germany 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In it, three works show the group’s peculiar split personality: two dances set to live Baroque music, and a third featuring rock and pop samples. Review: BalletNext’s Unique Brand of Dance Returns 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z As always under great leadership, the Juilliard early-musickers, delving deeper into history here than is their Baroque wont, showed tremendous pluck, skill and versatility. Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 Perform in ‘Shakespeare and Cervantes’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z When chances to conduct came up, he took them, with a growing expertise that focused on the Baroque and Classical periods. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z “Everyone danced in France,” the Baroque dance specialist Catherine Turocy said in a phone interview from her home in Dallas. ‘Everyone Danced in France’: A Baroque Bourrée Comes to BAM 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Newly established or not, Baroque opera remains a specialist pursuit at the Met, so a certain continuity is to be expected in casting. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns in ?Rodelinda? Opera - Review 2011-11-15T22:51:34Z At least the program ends on a more optimistic note, with Krzysztof Pastor’s 2000 “In Light and Shadow,” which takes inspiration from paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer, as well as from Baroque dances. Review: Hong Kong Ballet, Polished and Ready for More 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Jeannette Sorrell started her own ensemble, Apollo’s Fire, a Baroque orchestra based in Cleveland, in part, she said, because she encountered bias while trying to navigate a traditional career. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z British classical ensembles are full of musicians playing brilliantly while looking morose, so in some ways it's a shock to encounter Apollo's Fire – or the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, under a more poetic name. Apollo's Fire ? review 2010-12-02T21:46:00Z In February, Mr. Gandelsman performed that Chaconne at the Helicon Foundation in New York using — for the first time — a Baroque bow. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z The section on Baroque painting includes some by artists enamored of Caravaggio's brand of spotlighted excess, although none possess his painterly brilliance. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z And what if you want to exhibit them — or your four Bacons, 10 Warhols, four Lichtensteins and three Twomblys — alongside some of your 34 Renaissance and Baroque bronzes? A Billionaire Is Opening a Private Art Museum in Manhattan 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z We think of her, however, primarily in terms of Mozart, Strauss and the excesses of Baroque opera, so the choice of Bach seems perverse. Bach: Cantatas and Arias ? review 2011-03-10T21:30:00Z His sweet-toned approach is not the Baroque purist’s aesthetic, but not a note or phrase seemed ill advised. Music Review: Sergey Khachatryan in Concert at Alice Tully Hall 2012-05-24T21:49:03Z Designed by the Italian architect Franco Stella, the new building incorporates modern elements — sleek interiors and one minimalist outer facade — into the Baroque design of the original palace. Humboldt Forum in Berlin Finally Opens (Kind of) 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The buildings in the historic city center include cathedrals, castles and buildings brimming with Renaissance and Baroque details. To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The Denk wine garden, in the town of Weissenkirchen, overlooks the gray-green Danube River as it winds through lush hilltops decorated with gleaming abbeys and small towns dotted with terra-cotta roofs and Baroque church steeples. Journeys: Austrian Vineyards Are All in the Family 2010-10-13T15:14:00Z “He wrote incredible things that no Baroque composer ever wrote in a score because they would say it in person. We have the fortune of having the voice of Vivaldi written down on this score.” Vivaldi opera gets premiere in Ferrara nearly 300 years late 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z They start the show invitingly and remain a pleasure throughout, supplying the requisite sweetness and drive, along with a few unusual touches — like a Baroque gigue. Review: It’s That Old Hard Shoe, and an Irish Dance Reunion 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Gone in this recital, which required amplification in the cavernous space, were the sweeping Romantic lines of his earliest effort and Baroque exaggerations of his second. Review | Yo-Yo Ma shows yet again why he is so universally beloved 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The series takes listeners from the Baroque to the 21st century, with forays further back, into medieval and Renaissance music. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z This exhibition includes 19 paintings — mostly Spanish, Italian and Netherlandish — dating from the early Renaissance through the late Baroque, and seven Spanish sculptures from the 16th through the 18th centuries. Space Pod Alights at the Serpentine Gallery 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z We do not know how the transition was made from the Baroque phase to the realism of the first century and the question is not even raised in the exhibition book. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In In recent decades Baroque music has been the focus of much debate about authenticity and the importance of historically accurate performances. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z Kreisler initially claimed that this piece and others were his versions of original works by obscure Baroque composers. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z At this party, the guest of honor might be Bach — the looming Baroque master whose music, Mr. Kenney wrote in a program note, transcends its time to become something more spiritual, holistic and worldly. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, which I hadn’t been familiar with, plays with irresistible energy and the singers are alert and eloquent. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Zuill Bailey, Natasha Paremski, Leon Kirchner and More 2014-01-29T17:18:51Z And on Saturday evening, Dorian Baroque will offer “Orlando” at the National Opera Center, a few subway stops away. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Assorted officials, their entourages, journalists, passers-by and museum staff mingled excitedly in front of a Baroque palazzo, which was about to be opened as Italy’s newest bastion of contemporary art. A New Contemporary Art Museum Aims to Heal a City’s Wounds 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z French Baroque musical utterance was supposedly based on the cadences of 17th-century French drama, which would naturally place huge importance on the comprehensibility of the text. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Despite the handsome color palette and sensitive evocation of the Baroque era, these suffer from an excessive use of gold and a largely unvarying set. Dance Review: David Hallberg at Bolshoi in ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-11-22T00:00:10Z Within the next four seasons, she will sing eight different roles, including Pamina in a new staging of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” and a leading part in a Baroque pastiche the company is developing. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Three months ago, with our own Seattle Baroque Orchestra in Town Hall, Rachel Barton Pine offered a virtual master class in the capacities of the viola d’amore. Music that speaks, thanks to Pacific MusicWorks 2014-04-11T18:02:17Z That group, which she dissolved a decade later, was originally intended to allow her to sing Baroque repertoire that countertenors had otherwise claimed, she said, but podium dates started to follow. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z With her childlike soprano voice, Newsom zealously works her harp, trafficking in a strange admixture of Baroque Appalachia—yup, you read that last bit right. The enigmatic genius of Joanna Newsom 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z In other words, inspired music-making will lead to idiomatic Baroque technique, not vice versa. A Baroque Specialist Gets the Philharmonic to Play From the Gut 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Though best known as a Baroque authority, McGegan does not insist on so-called historically informed performances. Symphony pays tribute to Cleopatra ? and wine ? in this weekend's concerts 2011-03-03T21:02:09Z Ramps and walls relate to each other, curves sweeping against curves in a spatially rich interplay entirely at home in a country that invented Baroque space. Zaha Hadid’s First Posthumous Project Is Inaugurated in Salerno 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Parzinger was among those overseeing the construction of the Humboldt Forum, a controversial project uniting several museums’ collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace in the center of Berlin. How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave the Benin Bronzes Back 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Your famous quote is that “pigeonholes are for pigeons” and you have done everything from Baroque operas to Wagner. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z Bach is revered here, and past seasons have included Vivaldi concerts and works by Handel, Telemann, Corelli and others from the Baroque Top 10. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z Some 1,300 buildings — Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance and Classical — are situated within the city’s compact center on an island that is surrounded by the Trave River and a canal that leads to the Elbe River. Overnighter: L?beck?s Spires, a Quick Hop From Hamburg 2011-08-05T15:28:09Z The Adagio Molto begins with a few eerie, harmonically unstable measures, in keeping with the chromatic idiom often used in Baroque sacred music to represent Jesus’ suffering. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z “My style is definitely inspired by the Baroque and Victorian periods,” said Ms. Hunt, sipping a Japanese single-malt whiskey cocktail at the bar of the Modern, the museum’s restaurant. A Publicist and D.J. Who Nurtures Underrepresented Artists 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Both concerto and divertimento were written in Mozart's teens, barely after the end of the Baroque era, a scant generation after the deaths of Handel and Bach. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z My job was to change it from a chamber group to a Baroque orchestra. Maestro of the Influential Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Step Down 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z As Mr. Gelb said in a recent interview, he wanted to “play the Baroque card” at the Met in a fresh way. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z Home almost literally, for the splendid Bach at One series, featuring the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra directed by Julian Wachner, is the flagship of Trinity’s concert program. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It was there, inspired by giant Classical, Renaissance and Baroque effigies, that “I got insight into the background of sculpture for the first time,” he once recalled. Milton Hebald, Whose Sculptures Are in Plain View, Dies at 97 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The sensuous Baroque seashell conjures the birthplace of Botticelli’s Venus. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The painting was on display at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, one of fifty works on loan from the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan for a show of Baroque painting from Lombardy. ArtsBeat Blog: Florida Museum to Hold On to Disputed Painting 2011-09-09T22:46:24Z A conductor and composer, Mr. Wachner oversaw Trinity’s critically praised choir, Baroque orchestra and contemporary-music ensemble, which together present hundreds of events each year. Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “Grab them by the heart, and you can go for their souls later. You find this overt sensuality in early Baroque statues such as Bernini’s ‘Ecstasy of St. Teresa.’” Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Brahms’ piano transcription was returned to a Bachian harpsichord but tuned a little differently, so that it sounds closer to a Baroque violin yet also with a very distant flavor of Lou Harrison’s California. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Luna, of course, made an impression in “The Tempest”; the mezzo-soprano Alice Coote has been heard here in both Baroque and new music, starring in Mr. Muhly’s “Two Boys” a few years ago. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Most amazing of all was an encore, the Andante movement from the Symphony in G minor, Opus 4, No. 2, by an obscure French Baroque composer, Francois Martin. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T14:53:00Z Career: Trained in art history and music at Harvard and Yale, then moved to France in 1970 and began to specialise in Baroque music. William Christie, conductor – portrait of the artist 2013-06-25T18:00:00Z The piece even evokes the Baroque form of the chaconne, in which variations are spun over a repeated harmonic sequence. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z His most recent outings were in San Francisco, first as a last-minute replacement conducting the San Francisco Opera’s new production of Handel’s “Partenope,” and then in a planned debut with the Philharmonia Baroque. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner What resulted was a heightened appreciation of Rossi’s innovative spirit, which combined the elegant shifting harmonies of the Italian early Baroque with a careful attention to textual detail. Music Review: Clarion Music Society at the Five Borough Music Festival 2012-11-27T22:51:16Z The orchestra, which included the harpsichordist Arthur Haas and the lutenist Daniel Swenberg, featured four members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble as principal string players and adhered to period style. Music in Review: Yale in New York in an All-Handel Evening at Zankel HallMacedonian Pianist Simon Trpceski at Zankel Hall 2012-02-28T23:30:49Z In the solemn second movement, the strings played the unison thematic statement with emphatic sound and clipped articulation, almost like a Baroque oratorio. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Each meeting — with an expert in Okinawan, Cambodian or French Baroque dance, to name a few of the styles they’ve encountered — is fodder for a new work that they create themselves. 10 Spring and Summer Dance Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z In the following decades, the quarter, named for a Baroque Carmelite church on the square, acquired a seedy, neglected patina. Surfacing: Savoring the Revival of Vienna?s Second District 2010-06-02T17:36:00Z From there, variations surface with nods to Classical and Baroque forms: a dancerly minuet or rondo, a concerto grosso of angular strings, a wandering ricercare. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z To start, there is the stunning combination of Roman, Gothic and Baroque architecture for which Évora has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site. Overnighter: From Lisbon, Visiting the Storied City of ?vora 2011-06-24T18:55:01Z All Baroque art is theatrical, but in Europe, the pageant takes place on an airy, unfolding stage. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Not since 2001, when the interior of the Guggenheim was painted black to offset a masterpiece of the Brazilian Baroque, has a Latin American altarpiece of such scale and importance come to New York. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z If you eat up Baroque shtick, as I do, the English Concert’s presentation of Handel’s “Serse” at Carnegie Hall on Sunday was probably right up your alley. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Sung and played with freshness and spirit by the Venice Baroque and six youthful soloists, this disc – full of showpiece da capo arias and gleeful coloratura – may up your game on the obscure opera front. L'Olympiade: the Opera ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:27Z Seattle Baroque Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Aaron Grad’s “Strange Seasons,” a new concerto for electric theorbo and an ode to Puget Sound’s weather, Nov. 11 at Benaroya Hall. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z There will also be broadcasts of live concerts from historic houses, and the BBC Concert Orchestra is to perform a night of contemporary Baroque remixes. Radio 3 to host Baroque Spring 2013-01-31T17:40:21Z What’s more, Anglo-Saxon words that are still regularly bleeped on radio and television have been set to melodies that recall Baroque choral prayer song as well as soulful Broadway ballads. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Beyond Baroque A mainstay of the literary counterculture of Venice since 1968, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center holds poetry readings, workshops and more. 12 ways to do literary good this holiday season 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The Philharmonic went gamely through the motions of the Baroque, but there was little surprise or delight, essential in this repertory. Review: A Baroque Start to the New York Philharmonic’s Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z This 13-minute suite is essentially Mr. Adès’s arrangements of three harpsichord pieces by that French Baroque master. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z Here Mr. Davies sang with a passionate sensuality fully contained within the rigorous constraints of Baroque form. Music Review: Iestyn Davies at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-17T01:09:20Z Its final steps lead to a postcard-ready view of the sensational Palais Garnier, the love-it-or-hate-it theater with a Baroque, Renaissance and all-around garish pastiche that overwhelms and enchants at every turn. Behind the Curtain at the Paris Opera 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the problem was insufficient funds, or a lack of an appropriate hall: The city doesn’t have a really good space for Baroque opera. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z Aurora and the Prince perform their Wedding pas de deux in what looks like Baroque underwear. Review: Ratmansky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Has Premiere in California 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z There he became infatuated with Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” that freewheeling ancient anti-epic whose tales of gods and monsters inspired so many masterpieces of Baroque and Renaissance art. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The work is cleanly and evocatively staged by Gilbert Blin, whose sets — like Anna Watkins’s colorful costumes — evoke both Baroque splendor and an idealized vision of ancient Greece. Music Review: Smorgasbord of Mythology and Mayhem 2011-06-15T22:00:30Z Strange overtones resulted, as if Christie had wandered into a Parisian modern music institute, such as IRCAM, and picked up some of the latest spectral techniques to bring Baroque music up to date. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and at The Hague, and in 1988 became first violin of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Early-music maverick Andrew Manze makes guest appearance with SSO 2010-04-28T22:16:00Z The moves come from breaking and hip-hop, but the music is Baroque opera, and the words the moves illustrate are classically allegorical. This ‘Fairy Queen’ Connects the Dots Between Purcell and Street Dance 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet the song is both immediately catchy, hinting at ska and Baroque music, and fairly direct about an atypical subject for pop. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z After a first half that’s Baroque in costume and music, the hoofer and his crew are supposed to shed social masks for a more contemporary, more authentic second act. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Savion Glover, “A Strange Loop,” and Freddie Gibbs & Madlib 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z As we dined in the Baroque, candelabra-lit hall, we learned about their lives, shared pictures on our cellphones and felt very welcomed and accepted, despite the difficulty in communicating. Inspired by the Billy Joel tune, a family heads to Vienna 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Baroque style often means playing faster than is common in modern style, perhaps because earlier instruments were more agile. Seattle Symphony goes for Baroque in 'Like Father, Like Son' program 2012-03-10T20:40:13Z It goes from a traditional Ukrainian song to Baroque music. He Sings. He Dances. He Creates a Sense of the Otherworldly. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” Mr. Thiessen said, the more transparent sound of a Baroque instrument allows the musician to move “more easily from being a soloist to an ensemble player as the situation changes.” In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Decorated in Baroque style with the white bones of 4,000 dead monks, the Capuchin Crypt near the luxurious Via Veneto is today a popular stop on any Rome tour. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z The stereotype of Baroque characters is that they are flat: machines who wheel themselves onstage, sing a difficult aria and wheel off. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z The second Baroque star lot also dropped dead. Auctions: At Auction, the Treasures of a Tycoon War Hero 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z He specialized in Baroque repertory, notably the work of Bach, Handel and Telemann. Maurice Andr?, Star of Classical Trumpet, Dies at 78 2012-03-03T05:12:16Z Juilliard415, supplemented by a few players from the Yale Baroque Ensemble, was once again excellent, but this performance proved something of a disappointment by comparison; inevitably, perhaps, since magic is not so common. Music Review: Juilliard415 Performs ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-04-07T20:57:41Z Bach, as the culmination of the German Baroque, effectively eclipsed his ancestors, whether actual family members or simply musical forebears. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z And her works go about answering them studiously but sensuously — with earnestness, wit, whimsy, self-awareness and music that ranges freely among, for a start, Baroque madrigals, power ballads and barbed modernism. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Sure, Baroque music can sound wonderful with no one bouncing around on the podium. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Down in the twinkling city, music began to rise from the Baroque plazas along the Ljubljanica River. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Bling Meets Baroque runs at the Vyne from May 29 until August 1. National Trust brings the bling as Vyne stately home gets makeover 2010-05-26T12:12:00Z Amazingly, this is set to Henry Cowell’s Suite for Violin and Piano, both modernist and Baroque in structure and melody. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Innovations begin just beyond, in a gallery that was once a straightforward sampler of Italian Baroque paintings, but now has a more specific theme: Baroque Rome. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Purcell's exquisite British Baroque miniature is as gorgeous to behold as anything the company has mounted on the Dorothy Chandler stage. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Mystery lovers will want to join her on the trail of her latest discovery, Agostino Steffani, an Italian Baroque composer, priest and diplomat, whose secret missions took him across Germany and Northern Europe. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z The 600-seat theater was just about ideal for a Baroque opera performed with a chamber orchestra of 19 players. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z “I wanted to play the Baroque card, but with a faster dramatic rhythm tailored to modern attention spans.” ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Mr. de Caluwe, who also plans to reduce the number of productions at the opera house and cut an annual Baroque opera staging unless circumstances change, said he was still fighting to maintain his budget. Dance Leaders Deplore Cuts in Belgium 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z So why can't fans of contemporary art accept similarly obvious historical facts, such as the enduring freshness and immediacy of the Renaissance and Baroque painters? Why Keith Richards should take over Tate Modern 2010-06-16T13:31:00Z Search out the only full-size Italian Baroque organ in North America, a 600-pipe, fully restored instrument built around 1770 that is played at periodic recitals by students at the acclaimed Eastman School of Music. Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Rochester, New York 2013-03-15T09:12:50Z None are more imposing than the Palais de Justice, or central courthouse, a ghastly mash-up of Baroque, classical and Assyrian motifs that sprawls over more than six acres of the capital’s heart. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z His music was from the European Baroque, Vivaldi and Corelli, but this ballet tells everyone that these composers are now American property too. Balanchine’s ‘Square Dance’ Speaks Ballet With an American Accent 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z We combine professional singers with professional players largely in music of the Baroque era. Pacific MusicWorks debuts first complete season 2011-10-20T20:12:06Z Auditions began in October with a concert led by Elizabeth Blumenstock, artistic director of the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival. Rachel Barton Pine: violinist, headbanger, SBO guest conductor 2014-01-10T21:57:13Z “Baroque American sportswear,” said Jason Wu, backstage after his show. On the Runway: Jason Wu Goes for the Gold 2011-02-11T20:58:45Z Baroque clichés come and go, just not in the places they best fit. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z It is a deceptively simple piece, with the slightly widening polo, in wide array of colors, draped like a Baroque statue. T Magazine: At Pitti, Innovation and Inspiration 2011-06-18T19:15:12Z Audiences have relished the chance to hear a string quartet or a singer, a Baroque vocal group or a contemporary music ensemble, in this intimate, relaxed setting. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z In the Baroque era the practice of borrowing music from one opera and fitting it with new words for another drama was commonplace. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z Combating Protestantism was a prime goal of Baroque art. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z He taught me how to play Baroque music and classical music, and simultaneously, he was teaching me to play Arabic music in the old, traditional way, with what we call Tarab. Ibrahim Maalouf Gives His Trumpet a Human Voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z A security camera caught a man hurling a rock at the Baroque masterpiece - though missing its target. Fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona vandalized 2011-09-04T15:31:05Z CE: What prompted the revival of interest in French Baroque music in the late 19th century? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Châtelet played the harpsichord, and Émilie’s most personal forebodings and memories are often accompanied by harpsichord passages lightly evoking Baroque styles. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z The pretext on Thursday at Carnegie Hall was “In War and Peace,” a well-traveled, predominantly Baroque program with the early-music band Il Pomo d’Oro, which has already been released on disc by Erato. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The festivities conclude on March 27, when Town Hall will be the setting for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra's performances of some of Handel's tuneful and varied "Grand Concertos," under the direction of Ingrid Matthews. Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z This was fairly common practice in 17th- and 18th-century operas and became even more widespread as the castrati, the neutered male trebles of the Baroque era, began to disappear. Michael Kennedy on Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos 2013-05-30T09:56:31Z He found it in the gentle convex curve of the Baroque bow; the modern bow is longer, and slightly concave. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z There’s been an explosion of revivals of long-ignored early Baroque and bel canto works, as well as a robust interest in brand-new pieces. Review: ‘Persée et Andromède’ Glows at Manhattan School of Music 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z This was ballet solely as an art of showy surface, with none of the etiquette that underpinned Baroque ballet. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z For the next several years, Hudson, N.Y., has the potential to become a Baroque opera destination, even for those accustomed to the rich offerings of New York City. Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The second movement — Mr. Rosen calls it at once Baroque, classical and Romantic — is an astonishing piece of time travel: It looks back at the Baroque as if through the filter of jazz. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In the Baroque vein another respected ensemble comes to town this week and presents a different slice of that musical era. The Week Ahead: Mar. 6 ? 14 2011-03-05T18:13:26Z The sound collage, by Mr. O’Connor, alternates between Baroque opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and electronic drips and rhythmic croaking. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The Baroque composer spent the last quarter-century of his life in that major European center of culture and education, as music director of Leipzig’s principal churches. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z In the shifting chords of “Closing,” lines sing as if in Baroque counterpoint, with a fragility and tenderness that recalls Strauss. Classical Playlist: Rihm, Brahms, Glass and Messiaen 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z This William Christie-led period-instrument group often performs Baroque opera when it passes through New York, but here, in a program titled “Music for Marie Antoinette,” the ensemble makes a welcome digression into later music. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The Baroque chaconne used a recurring element, often a ground bass, as a hook for variations. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z The string writing is rugged, with a hint of Stravinskian tartness, but the real draw is the virtuosic solo writing: Baroque in shape but with a modern harmonic accent. Music Review: Traditional Works Made in an Avant-Garde Time 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z In the 1980s it was Baroque specialists like them who were some of the country’s biggest classical stars. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The cathedral took over 250 years to build, and is a mix of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Overnighter: In Toledo, Layers of Spanish History 2012-12-21T16:56:55Z Musica Sacra’s soloists were smoother and steadier, looking and sounding more glamorous; these were clearly opera singers, not Baroque choristers. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z Of the three dances presented, all set to live Baroque or classical music, two were overtly and sincerely religious. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Gloria’ and ‘Jesu, Meine Freude’ 2012-06-24T21:28:00Z With the groups Dark Horse Consort and Blue Heron, it includes Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, music by women of the Italian Baroque and a program from 16th-century Spain. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet, in the manner of the Baroque style, Mr. Tharaud vividly conveys the swinging rhythmic sweep of the dancing variations: the 21st is a heady burst of spiraling runs. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Afterward, the mansion’s resident Brooklyn Baroque ensemble performs works by Bach and others with the tenor Timothy Hodges at its holiday concert from 4 to 6 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:38:45Z The Philharmonic’s “Messiah” on Tuesday, led by the British Baroque and Classical specialist Harry Bicket, was decidedly not the most intense. Review: ‘Messiah’ at the Philharmonic, Then a Flood 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Baroque purists who object should be quieted by the presence on the podium of Mr. Christie, who has done as much as any musician today to champion Baroque opera. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z The Baroque era was represented with a buoyant rendition of the Airs and Dances from Purcell’s “Fairy Queen.” Music Review: The Knights Play the Naumburg Bandshell 2012-07-25T21:52:26Z Historians point to this score as the German Baroque counterpart to Monteverdi’s seminal Vespers of 1610. Review: In Time for the Holidays, Radiant Praetorius Carols 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z This is a very rare chance to see 40 Renaissance and Baroque works of art from a large Italian art museum. 9 Seattle-area art experiences you won’t want to miss this fall 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The Drill Hall was a perfect place to duplicate the effect of brass fanfares and riffs bounding from one balcony to another in Baroque cathedrals. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z Naples is a city of contradictions, of ornate Baroque palazzos alongside derelict housing, of unrelenting and unruly traffic and an official unemployment rate of 21.5 percent, twice the national average. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z She began as a mezzo-soprano, refashioned herself as a soprano eight years ago and was best suited to Baroque and Classical works, especially Monteverdi, Gluck and Mozart. Music Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Sings at Lincoln Center 2012-04-09T21:27:56Z Mr. Wachner, never less than intriguing in any repertoire, conducts the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But there was also a fascinating Baroque coda in which lively Scottish and English songs framed a set of French vocal works, by Charpentier and Delalande, juxtaposed to create a traditional dance suite. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z Lessons with the British conductors Harry Christophers and Christopher Hogwood helped him hone his knowledge of the Renaissance and Baroque repertory. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z Although the basilica is currently undergoing renovation work, its grand collection of paintings and sculptures from renowned Baroque artists is still open to the public, and the panoramic views it offers are truly spectacular. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z They also collect Renaissance and Baroque bronzes as well as old master paintings — Hill was the mysterious buyer of an early-17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio. Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Wall texts explained that the Baroque aimed to spark awe in the viewer. In Mexico, a dazzling museum dives headlong into the Baroque period 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z As the arrangements unfolded, she switched to Arabic, and her earthier style, using a combination of Baroque and Arabic embellishments. Music Review: Ensemble Sarband in White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-21T23:11:33Z Mr. Rattle significantly broadened the Philharmonic’s repertoire — not only by programming more new music, but also by reclaiming Baroque works that many symphony orchestras had ceded to early-music ensembles. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z His wife of 53 years, Ellen Rosand, a professor of music at Yale University and a specialist in Italian Baroque music, said the cause of death was cardiac amyloidosis. David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z When Irish violinist and conductor Kevin Mallon began thinking about a program to lead with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, his instinct was to include contemporary dance. SBO conductor candidate Kevin Mallon leads Bach cantatas 2014-03-19T19:52:56Z Some two years ago he began gathering a wide variety of Baroque stage music, much of it unpublished, with expert help from Ellen Rosand, a musicologist on the faculty of Yale University. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z The former refectory houses a bar where visitors sip sinful "Archangel" cocktails beneath 19th century Baroque frescoes. 2010-02-06T04:05:00Z Idyllic countryside and pristine coast; Baroque majesty and homey hospitality; cuisine that is complex on the taste buds but simple in its preparation. Drifting Through Puglia, Italy’s Heel 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The professor who taught a course I took on Baroque music in graduate school certainly fit the stereotype of a stuffy old musicologist, with his baggy suits and befuddled manner, yet strict adherence to scholarship. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The costumes riff abstractly on the Baroque portraits by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck. Review: Bayreuth’s First American Director Arrives With ‘Lohengrin’ 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Protestant Scotland wasn't Catholic Italy, but Renaissance and Baroque paintings could still be read as secular lessons. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Another reason for the difficulty in introducing Baroque is that Chinese musicians are trained mostly in technique, not interpretation. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z Adapted from Italian Baroque sculpture, they take the form of bent-back, gape-mouthed reptilian head that seems to be swallowing the trophies or vomiting them out. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Russian triple threat Dmitry Sinkovsky — a violin virtuoso who also conducts and sings countertenor — played an impressive Baroque program with the Seattle Symphony that only included a few rocky moments. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The instrumental pieces, scattered through the program, were energetically played, and the ensemble was well balanced, with fine violin and vielle playing by Vita Wallace and agile lute and Baroque guitar accompaniments by Charles Weaver. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z Back home at the Louvre he re-experienced the Baroque of Poussin and Rubens. Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z For the new production Mr. Wilson added a brief Prologue, sung — in the best Baroque tradition — by La Musica, with harpsichord accompaniment. Music Review: A Long-Dead King Sets Out to Upgrade His Brand?s Image 2011-01-26T23:03:16Z The female courtiers in the same act wear abbreviated Baroque dresses so badly cut that they look like culottes. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Returns to Lincoln Center 2013-07-02T21:29:12Z The vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth realized these different musical styles — Baroque madrigal, Appalachian folk song, Manhattan Transfer-style close harmony, buzzing rock anthem — with ease through amplification. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Modeled after Versailles, its exterior is a superior example of French chateau style, but its interior mesmerizes with Baroque and Rococo elements, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z The Baroque trumpet was one of the last instruments to be domesticated by early-music practitioners, at least in New York. St. Thomas Choir Performs Handel’s 'Messiah' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z He is scheduled for "The Enchanted Island," a staging of Baroque arias from different composers, which opens at the Met this New Year's Eve. Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z The museum’s auditorium also provides a virtual tour of the chapel, along with other famous Baroque churches around the world, on its four video screens. In Mexico, a dazzling museum dives headlong into the Baroque period 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Composers in Bach’s Baroque day thought nothing of adapting their music and other people’s music for different instruments. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But for Tines, it’s not just the open ears and collaborative spirit of this particular organization that has expanded possibilities in the Baroque. Perspective | A star opera singer is changing classical music with a radical idea: Listening 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In March 2013, beneath the church’s lovely frescoes, the Venice Music Project inaugurated a Baroque music series, reviving a style integral to the Venetian Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z She began with Lou Harrison’s Six Sonatas for Cembalo, written in 1943, which use the harpsichord like a modern West Coast percussion instrument, but which also allude to Baroque practices, particularly in tuning. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The performance also inaugurated what is projected to be an annual event focusing on French Baroque repertory written for Lent. Music Review: Tenet Performs Couperin?s Lessons for Lent 2012-03-11T22:13:39Z An acidic undercurrent darkens the work’s playful exterior; cheery Neo-Classical and Baroque allusions soon become dissonant and even nightmarish. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z This was the problem in Thursday’s concert, at which Ms. Bartosz and three other soloists appeared with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir under the direction of their founder, Ton Koopman. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z But she said she was also eager to bring in more French music, as well as Baroque works. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Antwerp is in full Baroque mode, with half a dozen museums devoting their summer programming to the high-drama art of the 17th century, and to Rubens, the city’s favorite son. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Rome’s artistic bent would usually be described as a mix of Renaissance and Baroque, with dusting of ancient. In Transit Blog: In Rome, Art Meets Astronomy 2012-04-18T21:05:49Z “I find a lot of Baroque references in Jake’s music,” Mr. Summers said. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z Delacroix revived propagandistic elements of earlier Baroque style, but now he put them at the service of nationalist politics. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Apples and kilts and changing costume color schemes are used as gimmickry; the Baroque music, by Bach and Wassenaer, is used exploitatively — and on Wednesday was considerably overamplified. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z A walk through the narrow streets of the city’s Sovabazar neighborhood provides a glimpse at the ancestral estates, which range in style from Islamic to Baroque and beyond, that emerged during this period. 36 Hours in Kolkata, India 2012-11-22T15:12:44Z In “Hommage à Rameau,” the Baroque period is brought into the world of late Romanticism through the introduction of echo and resonance. Review: From Taka Kigawa, a Class on Resonance at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Using less bow also made fast runs cleaner and lighter, flickering off the string, and Vajda took fast movements truly fast at a good Baroque tempo. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z Their repertoire, with its founding specialty in the French Baroque of Lully, Rameau and Charpentier, doesn’t check fashionable boxes of diversity, equity and inclusion. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Though it isn’t performed nearly as often as it used to be, Limón’s compression of the Othello story into a Baroque dance still looks like a masterpiece. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z And now he brings the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir to Carnegie for Bach’s Mass in B minor and, on Oct. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z French Baroque, for most people, means Versailles and the complexities, aesthetic and political, of music composed for the Bourbon monarchy. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z Canvases by Renaissance and Baroque masters were hung throughout the palace. In Transit: With New Show, Rare View of Rome's Palazzo Farnese 2010-12-29T11:00:54Z He shifted to a Baroque pioneer of French keyboard music, Rameau, playing articulate, vividly characterized excerpts from “Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin.” Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Fischer is a singer equally at home in the Baroque scene and the world of pop. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Then, days later, a bleak midwinter seemed to settle in, when Trinity declared a hiatus in its own music program, suspending the activities of its excellent Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra at least until March. ArtsBeat: Juilliard School Announces $20 Million Gift for Early Music 2012-01-16T20:30:25Z Though Gould was drawn to Baroque music and instinctively cultivated lucid musical textures, the film reveals the extent to which his principal teacher, the Chilean-born pianist Alberto Guerrero, imparted skills that maximized clarity. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Does that also account somewhat for the importance of the chorus in French Baroque opera? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z His many works of art criticism include studies of Goya, French Gothic murals and Italian Baroque painting. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z This second season will advance from that Baroque batch into the Classical period via Haydn, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The Saturday night program was part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations series, with the cello soloists also conducting baroque concertos. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In every way it evokes layers of classicism old and new, in which traditions deriving from ancient Greece and the Baroque are hugger-mugger with 20th-century jazziness and sly vaudeville fun. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z In the back row, Baroque recorders nestled up to an Afro-Brazilian percussion section. With Politics as Backdrop, Hamburg’s New Hall Looks to America 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Kent and his set and costume designer, Paul Brown, add period — Baroque versus modern — to the list of shifting realities. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Take a Play, Then Adorn It With Opera 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Juxtaposing Bach’s music with pieces of today is hardly an original idea; it tends to reveal the Baroque within the modern, and vice versa. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Before entering, I admired the elaborate pink and white portico, which made me think of a wedding cake, of the Capilla de la Tercera Orden, a Baroque chapel in the same complex. Cuernavaca: A side trip into opulence, only an hour away from Mexico’s capital 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In her hands was a treble viola da gamba, an instrument largely associated with Baroque music. Review: Colleen Focuses on Precision With Fingers and Feet 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But sharing the stage with a Baroque band, Ms. Coote confined herself to Handel, who provides more than enough gender-bending examples of his own. Review: Alice Coote Sings a Recital at the Brighton Festival 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The project drew inspiration from the work of the Baroque Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, who made images of meditating monks, their faces obscured by the shadows from their hooded robes. John Edmonds’s Luminous Images of Men in Do-Rags 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Propaganda was formally institutionalized in Rome in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, thanks to the success of Baroque art. Propaganda is here to stay. Is there a museum willing to tackle its complexity? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The gallery remains as three separate rooms — but it’s now much easier to imagine the spectacular Baroque hall as it was. In Transit Blog: Obscured Frescoes See the Light in Rome 2011-12-15T11:00:39Z Westhoff’s music was featured in a program of Baroque music that explored the roots of the modern violin and featured excerpts from “Air: A Baroque Journey,” Mr. Hope’s recent Deutsche Grammophon CD. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z Under Mr. Somary’s leadership the ensemble, which added a chamber choir in 1980, made a specialty of neglected Baroque and Classical works. Johannes Somary, Conductor of Neglected Works, Dies at 75 2011-02-08T06:59:21Z China’s first performance of a Baroque opera, Handel’s “Semele,” was nearly overshadowed by Chinese cultural officials’ unhappiness with a video that preceded the performance. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z Rubens and Anthony van Dyck later made Antwerp the focal point of the Flemish Baroque. The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Caroline Shaw, the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music, contributed the shining encore, a setting of a 17th-century poem that had Baroque purity and some modern harmonies. Reviews: Ian Bostridge, Tenet and Tallis Scholars in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The coconuts have provoked no desire in him to go Baroque. Possessed: Christian Liaigre Is a Minimalist With a Taste for Ornate Coconuts 2012-10-19T23:12:24Z For two centuries “Atys,” like the other operas of the French Baroque, was all but forgotten. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z This is the latest entry in the SSO’s Baroque and Wine series; tastings begin at 6:30 p.m. 7 Seattle-area classical events you won’t want to miss 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the spirited, sublime music of the Baroque period, which lasted about 1600 to 1750. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music (Published 2020) 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z So it might be helpful to compare French and Italian Baroque opera. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z The group has its own subscription series but also works with a number of collaborators, from Baroque companies to Sting, as a band-for-hire, and is active in chamber music and teaching. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The result was a pleasant supper rather than a sumptuous Baroque repast, though the ambitious little company certainly didn’t stint on the voices. Subversive savages in a musical digestif 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Now for something luxurious from the French Baroque. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The contrast isn’t without exceptions, but Wölfflin’s typology remains helpful: If Renaissance painting aimed to depict “the solid figure,” the art of the Baroque era favored “the changing appearance,” “movement” and “the form in function.” High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Built in 1694 for a cardinal, it exemplifies Polish Baroque architecture. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z Another Baroque concert and another harpsichord you can barely, if at all, hear. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Germany à la carte Violinist Sarah Thornblade leads a piano trio in German Baroque repertoire in this Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra fundraiser. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Nov. 26-Dec. 3: Hilary Hahn, Handel's 'Messiah' and more 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z We know a good deal about them; we know, for example, they were playing on transitional instruments midway between Baroque and what we regard now as “modern,” in terms of their construction and mechanism. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z This is probably the most formally rigorous movie in the festival, an intellectual drama as stately and harmonious as the Baroque architecture that is one of its main themes and visual resources. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z By blending Renaissance counterpoint with cutting-edge Baroque theatrical rhetoric, he humanized the texts, and made them into an unprecedented amalgam of religious fervor and sheer fun. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z The British founder and longtime leader of the Philharmonic Baroque in the Bay Area, McGegan is a specialist in early music period practice. At Hollywood Bowl, Nicholas McGegan is the man for all seasons For listeners who prefer the historical approach to Baroque style, the annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah” at St. Thomas Church set a standard that is hard to surpass. Music Review: John Scott Leads ?Messiah? at St. Thomas Church - Review 2011-12-07T22:50:23Z This Bolivian group devotes itself to Baroque music manuscripts found in Bolivian missions. Around the (Spanish and Portuguese) world in 80 minutes 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z This despite the Met’s continuing investment in the work, offering some of the same stars and others, and substituting several arias, the better to suit them, in good, freewheeling Baroque fashion. Opera Review: ‘The Enchanted Island’ Returns to Met Opera 2014-02-28T21:08:04Z All pointed the words with clarity and purpose, a crucial quality in French Baroque opera, which was closely aligned with spoken theater. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Cabinetmakers in Lancaster, which was situated on the trade route between Philadelphia and the U.S. interior, blended the Philadelphia rococo aesthetic with their German Baroque design heritage. A Lancaster Chippendale Desk-and-Bookcase Is on the Block 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The new recording, “Baroque Conversations,” is organized in four parts, like “an opera in four acts,” Mr. Greilsammer said. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z The rigor of the opera’s form is echoed, as in other Baroque operas, in the plot. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z The 17 paintings include portraits, religious narratives and vedute, or Venetian views, with an emphasis on the Baroque period. Art in Review: ?ITALIAN PAINTINGS From the 17th and 18th Centuries? 2011-02-03T22:06:16Z “I will show Your Illustrious Lordship what a woman can do,” Artemisia Gentileschi told a Sicilian client in 1649 — and indeed, this Baroque painter put herself on the front lines of her dramatic tableaux. Best Art Books of 2020 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z What better way to tease out that wildness than by pairing Baroque pieces with new ones? David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z It assembles a somewhat haphazard cross-section of looted and recovered paintings, from a history painting by the Baroque painter Bernardo Strozzi to a Matisse still life made more than three centuries later. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z A mix of stark harmonies, Baroque references and vibrant folk-derived rhythms, the piece emphasizes the text’s qualities of wrath and dejection. Music Review: Trinity Choir Performs Works Based on the Book of Lamentations 2014-03-11T22:00:28Z "We'll have a home base in Baroque times, but that doesn't shut out new music and new ideas," he said. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z "Its export would have been lamentable for the representation of Italian Baroque painting in this country." 'Saved' Domenichino painting loaned to National Gallery 2010-05-18T10:22:00Z Mr. Wachner’s bold approach paid dividends again on Thursday, when the players of other tricky instruments, like the Baroque hunting horn, struggled at the start of the fourth cantata. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z Chamber Orchestra holds concerts throughout Southern California, focusing on the Baroque repertoire but also performing other classical and contemporary works. L.A. Chamber Orchestra Executive Director Rachel Fine to depart 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In three movements for 13 players, the work is a witty short history of Western music — a pastiche of deconstructed Baroque and other musical styles. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z While the repertory Mr. McGegan explores with the orchestra extends well into the 19th century, Baroque opera is a specialty of his. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z On Thursday at City Center, she sang Dido in a semi-staged production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” a milestone of English Baroque opera. Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The production was a reminder that the Baroque was about restraint, but also about joy: the exhilaration of performance. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z His early sonatas were inspired by Mozart and Haydn, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with a bold synthesis of Baroque idioms and revolutionary forms and ideas. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z Walton’s music often suggests the Baroque; some of Mr. Gordon’s illustrations of courtly etiquette evoke the 19th century. Dance Review: David Gordon?s ?Dancing Henry Five? - Review 2011-10-08T00:39:12Z Mahan Esfahani, who was the guest host for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Baroque Conversations program Thursday night, is a hip harpsichordist for a new generation. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Three of his sonatas, including the zestful No. 6 in G and the brilliant Italian Concerto, share the program with the flashy Sonata in D minor by the Italian Baroque virtuoso Locatelli. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z Yet Stravinsky was inspired here, at least in part, by French Baroque music. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z In most classical works written after the Baroque era little is left to chance, with the composer specifying notes, tempos, dynamics and phrasing. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z That practice taps into a grand musical tradition: Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel often reused material from earlier works in new settings. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z On Friday evening, the musically keen choreographer was in the pit conducting Los Angeles' outstanding Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, five excellent soloists and the marvelous Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir from Cal State Long Beach. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But the Baroque era hovers in its concerto grosso-style balance of individual voices and ensemble, and in striking fugal passages. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z Bond chose several Baroque sonatas and songs by Henry Purcell, and created six sections corresponding to different facets of femaleness, such as the Madonna, the mother, the poet, the muse. Perspective | When world-class dancers leap into a new role: Choreographing world premieres 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z An English-language Baroque pastiche, “The Combat” uses works by Claudio Monteverdi, among others, to explore a relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim woman. At Seattle Opera, immersive ‘The Combat’ explores interfaith romance in 50 minutes 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z “Sicilian Baroque is really a set design,” he said. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z “The Enchanted Island” is a lively Baroque pastiche that features twinkling multimedia, magical potions concocted with lizards’ blood and floating mermaids. ArtsBeat: The Met’s ‘Enchanted Island’ Offers Students a Cultural Refuge 2014-03-17T20:14:16Z Most of the music is by Handel, whom Ms. van Kampen called “the greatest Baroque artist.” Mark Rylance to Return to Broadway in ‘Farinelli and the King’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Her instrumentation is distinct: one work, “Trajectories,” is for piano and electronics; another, “Shades of Silence,” for a quartet of Baroque instruments. CD review: young Icelandic composer’s organic music; Milhaud’s weighty ‘Orestie’ Other songs dip into bluegrass, klezmer, Baroque, R&B, American Indian chant and Celtic music. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z “They’ve not seen each other since, so this is pretty exciting,” said Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern Baroque paintings, about the images of the men made famous in the Gospel of Matthew. Paintings reunited at National Gallery of Art for first time since 1881 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z There is nothing offhand or informal in these radiant interpretations, accompanied by her brilliant longtime collaborators, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and its music director, Nicholas McGegan. Classical Recordings 2011-05-25T21:34:45Z Outside, intricate carvings of pomegranates and geese add to the Baroque frills. 36 Hours in Istanbul, Asian Side 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Penderecki's concerto, premiered 13 years ago in Tokyo, vaguely follows the Baroque concerto grosso format of a small group of soloists in opposition to a large group of players. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Never more so than in the current minifestival Bach and Polyphonies, which — conceived by the pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard — juxtaposes examples of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony with works of modern vintage. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z DiDonato’s vibrato, which oscillates so quickly it seems to effervesce, is built for highly ornamented Baroque melodies. Review: Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Eden’ Takes Root at Carnegie Hall 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The operas of Handel are similar in some ways but very different in others from those of Rameau, Charpentier and the rest of the French Baroque composers. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z Baroque, the lavish art style that took Europe by storm in the 17th century, is the focus of this exhibition, which trains its eye on the formative role that Rome played in the Continent-wide movement. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The Baders amassed 271 artworks over several decades, a collection dominated by Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Baroque period, in addition to Italian, German, and French old masters. Queen's University in Canada Gets a Third Rembrandt From Alfred and Isabel Bader 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Inside, an opulent Baroque altar features 365 carved figures covered in gold from the Americas. Seaside sisters: Tranquil towns snuggle on the Franco-Spanish border 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Baroque painter Caravaggio was accused of murder, as was the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Chuck Close Is Out at the National Gallery of Art. Is Picasso Next? 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Venice and Rome, the Gothic and the Baroque, theatrical scene painting and colossal Roman ruins all played a part in their creation. Review: Piranesi's Elevated Etchings 2010-10-20T11:22:00Z Nor was the playing itself particularly distinguished, though those of us who fancy period-instrument performances of Baroque music tend to look for a quicksilver pliancy that is harder to achieve on modern instruments. Opera Review: ‘The Enchanted Island’ Returns to Met Opera 2014-02-28T21:08:04Z Architecturally, the result is a legacy that includes Art Nouveau, Gothic, Baroque and even Georgian styles. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z Like Caravaggio’s “Flagellation,” its depiction of violence in chiaroscuro reaches Baroque heights of intensity and drama. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The Paris-based filmmaker is a Baroque specialist who once led the French stage company Théâtre de la Sapience. Baroque architect reaches across centuries to influence another in 'La Sapienza' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Throughout the space, Baroque paintings hang in gilded frames. TS Madison Steals the Spotlight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z “What we accept here is always of the highest standard,” said Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., the National Gallery’s curator of Northern Baroque paintings. Corcoran Gallery Art Transforms National Gallery 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z CE: You just made a passing reference to the difference in singing style between French and Italian Baroque opera. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Here, as throughout the evening, the back wall of the stage has been designed to suggest one of Aix’s antique stone facades, its idyllic Baroque fountains. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The work focused on refurbishing the undulating Baroque facades, strengthening the sinking foundations and renovating neglected areas. In Transit: New Roman Museum Highlights Baroque Church 2011-02-09T11:00:34Z Mr. Sams’s original libretto, with witty recitative, is set to music lifted from operas and other works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and other Baroque composers. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z “We were two weeks away from having the Vermeer and the Rembrandt,” Mr. Wittman said at the Met, watching early morning museumgoers filter through the Baroque galleries. F.B.I. Art Sleuth, Now Author of ?Priceless? 2010-06-06T22:06:00Z The project began when Turroni, 59, a writer and former tenor, approached Sciarrino with a draft libretto based on a version of the Venus and Adonis myth by the Italian Baroque poet Giambattista Marino. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z You need for Baroque music an instrument that articulates very well, that is very clear, with very explosive attack and clear attack, and if possible an instrument that sings very well without using the pedal. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about taking time off for Bach |
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