Chicago Tribune concert review: January 16, Symphony Center, Chicago. By Alan G. Artner, Special to the TribuneJanuary 18, 2013 The last 20 years brought a startling level of virtuosity to period-instrument performance, and Wednesday night’s concert in the Grainger Ballroom of Orchestra Hall served as a vivid illustration. British recorder player Piers Adams joined Garry [...]
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“Vastly imaginative, genuinely fun”–Mad Hatter’s Musical Tea Party
From the June 10, 2012 review in chicagoclassicalmusic.org by Kathryn J Allwine Bacasmot Hearing a well-executed performance of Baroque instrumental music is like being presented with a basket of perfectly blush, crisp, apples: plentiful sweet sounds articulated with a snap, like sharp lead breaking on paper. Garry Clarke (Artistic Director) and his crack team [...]
Wrapping up the Medea trilogy
For the past three seasons Baroque Band has been receiving rave reviews for its performances in the opera pit at the Harris Theater as the orchestra for Chicago Opera Theatre’s Medea Trilogy. The trilogy began in April 2010 with a performance of Cavalli’s Giasone, conducted by the British conductor Christian Curnyn with the Band’s own [...]
“In the presence of greatness”–Iestyn Davies, Harry Bicket, and Baroque Band
M.L. Rantala, Hyde Park Herald March 15, 2012 Iestyn Davies is a young British countertenor who has just made his Lyric Opera debut in Handel’s “Rinaldo.” He and the acclaimed British conductor Harry Bicket took time off from their Lyric duties to make a trip to Hyde Park Friday night to perform with the period [...]
In a program of Handel arias, Iestyn Davies illuminates Baroque art of the countertenor
Nancy Malitz, Chicago on the aisle March 10, 2012 You’ve got to hand it to countertenor Iestyn Davies and conductor Harry Bicket. When they take a night off from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where they’re performing music of George Frideric Handel, they’re in another part of town performing … George Frideric Handel. Is this [...]
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