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CD REVIEWS; Celebrate Christmas with master composers
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By PETER M. KNAPP
For The Patriot Ledger
The baroque period in European art ended about 1750, but
masterpieces of its great composers continue to delight and inspire,
as demonstrated by several new Christmas-oriented recordings. Johann
Sebastian Bach's uplifting Christmas Oratorio, the masterly set of
six cantatas relating to the Nativity, is splendidly performed by the
period-instrument English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir led
by their founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner ...
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Early music for seasoned ears
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; MAXIM REIDER Jerusalem Post 10-18-2007 Headline: Early music for seasoned ears Byline: MAXIM REIDER Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 24 Thursday, October 18, 2007 -- 'There's no reason to deal with art if you are not prepared to take a risk," says the soft-spoken Amit Tifenbrun, 40, co-founder of
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Early Music Now reaches overseas for next year
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Early Music Now reaches overseas for next year By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic Sunday, May 25, 2003 After an all-American 2002-'03, Early Music Now, Milwaukee's highly regarded presenter of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, will offer an international slate in 2003-'04: Scholars
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EARLY MUSIC GURU MANZE IS PART SLEUTH, PART BATTLER OF BOREDOM IN PERFORMANCE.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; Byline: Jacob Stockinger The Capital Times CORRECTION: An incorrect day was given in the Wednesday LifeStyle section for the concert by the Academy of Ancient Music and violinist Andrew Manze. The concert will be at 8 p.m. Friday at the Wisconsin Union Theater. For ticket information, call
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Film May Fix Baroque Music in People's Minds
Chicago Sun-Times
; There may be a Renaissance in baroque music in town, thanks to the French and their Gerard Depardieu. Depardieu, the large, crooked-faced French actor, stars in a film that opens today titled "Tous les Matins du Monde" - "All the Beautiful Mornings of the World." The film is about the Versailles
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Early Music's Charmed Circle.
World and I
; The mind's eye is opened by ancient sounds at Boston and Berkeley festivals. In the beginning--the turn of the first millennium, that is--there was no Early Music. And certainly there were no Early Music festivals. The idea of reviving for performance neglected works that were written in preceding
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