Forgive me for staying with Baroque music for another week, but after attending last week’s crackerjack Brandenburg concerti done by the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, I’m thinking a lot about a local cantata pilgrimage. Back in 2000, the British conductor John Eliot Gardiner took his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists on the road for an [...]
J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Peter Schickele once wrote that he’d be happy to give up some J.S. Bach cantatas for a few more Brandenburg concerti, even though he knew that was as close to heretical a statement as you could make. Beginning Friday, you can have both, when the Firebird Chamber Orchestra begins its Brandenburg Concerto [...]
Later this week, the Firebird Chamber Orchestra will take up the mantle of The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi’s deathless quartet of violin concerti that routinely rank at the top or very near it on those every-so-often lists of the world’s favorite classical pieces. Despite its enormous familiarity to one and all, I don’t recall offhand [...]
