Tag Archives: viola da gamba

"This is one of the reasons I’m so drawn to early music – it provides the temporal distance necessary to transform what we inherit into something new."

Jordi Savall and his early music ensemble looped back to the popular music of the 16th and 17th centuries in concert, while a new album offers modern piano responses to ancient music.

A Golden Wire and friends looked back to the 17th century in the latest Aspect Chamber Music Series concert.

'Music of the English Salon' from A Golden Wire, and a string trio featuring violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky with Beethoven, Dvořák, Smetana

A unique performance event that places us at a clandestine Catholic Mass in Elizabethan times, with music by William Byrd.

The project devoted to diversity in early music presented not one, not two, but four countertenors of color in its second concert.

The early music group illuminated the consonances between jazz and baroque music and had a good deal of fun doing it.

Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece took flight in the hands of one of the world's premiere viol consorts.

The celebrated musician-scholar and eminence grise of the viol offers representative pieces of what can be broadly termed the "Musica Nova" movement of the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, France, England, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. But you don't need experience with or knowledge of early music to appreciate the beauty, and the consummate expertise, of these performances.

The French Early Music ensemble's easy virtuosity frees it to inject plenty of fun into its concerts, enlivening the music with dramatic flair.