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A Renaissance for Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau It’s not very often that one receives international recognition two hundred fifty years after being placed in the ground. But with help from University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Getting in Tune
Galileo at his telescope On being subjected to long stretches of tuning at some early music concerts I’m reminded of the old joke about going to a fight and having a hockey game break out. Even if the...
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Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Nu kom der Heyden heyland in the Erfurt Enchiridion of 1524 The First Sunday of Advent begins the liturgical year, and three hundred years ago in Weimar, on 2 December 1714, Bach marked the occasion by...
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Billboard’s Top Classical Recordings
The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles As music critics assemble their best-of 2014 lists, another, probably very different barometer of musical taste has been revealed. Billboard has reported...
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Bach in Valletta
St. Publius Church in Floriana The third edition of the Valletta International Baroque Festival 2015 starts on 10 January 2015 with twenty-one events over fifteen days in seven venues. The 2015...
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Four-Limbed Performance
For some five centuries the trio has been the true test of an organist. The mode of playing in which each hand takes a single voice while the feet are responsible for the bass line had already enjoyed...
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Vivaldi with a Bit of Oud
Joseph Tawadros and his oud Winning three consecutive ARIA Awards – for best new world music album – is not something many people achieve. But Australian musician Joseph Tawadros, a virtuoso on the...
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Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1726 The names that come to mind at the mention of the Italian Renaissance are the likes of the House of Medici, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Few, however, know the name...
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The Legacy of Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Pelikan It has been nearly ten years since Jaroslav Pelikan died and a full twenty-five since he completed The Christian Tradition, his five-volume, 2,100-page history of “what the church of...
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Is There Inherited “Genius” in the Bach Family Tree?
Johann Sebastian, Carl Phillipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Christoph Bach Perhaps as captivating a question as how to define a “genius” in music is whether that genius can...
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