Contents for Early Music Today
NOW PUBLISHED AS PART OF CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE
- REPORTER
Early Music Show, Up-and-comings and the early music guide to Utrecht - HABSBURG HEROES
The multi-national Cinquecento aims to convert the Viennese - VESPERS 400
How to tackle Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. We talk to the experts - CD REVIEWS
The best early music releases reviewed, including a superb disc of Taverner from St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh
- PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Our reviewers attended the St John’s Smith Square Christmas Festival - THE LIST
Concerts, workshops, masterclasses and other events to look forward to in February and March - BACKSTORY
Cacti and keyboards: the search for a Bachian organ leads Tom Lydon to the Arizona desert
Editorial
For useful web links for the Cambridge at 800 and for Hadyn events in Britain and Europe or to listen to the aural examples from the series "Taming Artistic Temperament" please click on the "continue reading the editorial" link below.
IT’S ALL TOO EASY to base everything around anniversaries these days. Though perhaps not in the same league as 2009, 2010 also has its fair share: Cherubini (250), Pergolesi, W F Bach and Thomas Arne (300), Alessandro Scarlatti, Campra and Fux (350), Gesualdo and Gombert (450), Andrea Gabrieli and Clemens non Papa (500) plus numerous other less well-known names. Expect to hear them cropping up in concerts over the year. It is also, and this gives us an idea of just how highly it is regarded, the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. Performances are planned throughout the country – keep an eye on our listings section to find out performances in your area...
