No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...
My introduction to the wonders of Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos came courtesy of the Walter Carlos recording “Switched-On Bach,” when I was in my teens. It’s an ingenious record – Bach performed on ...
Led by artistic director Paul Dyer, Baroque Masters brings together works from Handel, Bach, Pachelbel and Vivaldi across a ...
For any Twin Cities lover of the arts, there’s usually a particular December date they make every year. For theatergoers, it might be the Guthrie’s “A Christmas Carol” or — a tradition of more recent ...
The house program for choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “The Six Brandenburg Concertos,” a choreographic suite for the Belgian dancemaker’s Rosas company, now at the Park Avenue Armory, opens ...
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment do that extremely well. The expertise of their techniques is unexceptionable, and even without violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, who was to have taken a leading role ...
Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...