Consortium Carissimi at The Twin Cities Music Festival
Join us on Sunday, August 14th 2016 for a Concert presentation of the Naxos releases of Music of Bonifazio Graziani (1604-1664.) We also would like to welcome back our guest conductor…
REVIEW: Consortium Carissimi breathes life into 1672 opera
REVIEW: Bernardo Pasquini’s “Il Tirinto” is proven worthy of resurrection. By TERRY BLAIN Special to the Star Tribune From an aristocratic palace in the Castelli Romani, Italy, to the blasted concrete…
Commedia dell’arte and Early Opera
by Jon Cranny – stage director for Il Tirinto As with much of western culture, it started with the Greeks – comic drama, commedia. But alas only fragments of the…
The History of The Lute
You’ve been to early music concerts and noticed a rounded back instrument being strummed or plucked, reminiscent of William Shakespeare and harking back to the sounds of John Dowland – the lute. But do you know much about this instrument?
Recently I was doing a little research and came across this essay written by Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, an instrument builder and based out of Edinburgh University. Read on…
Bernardo Pasquini – Italian Composer & Renowned Virtuoso Keyboard Player
Italian composer, Bernardo Pasquini was one of the foremost keyboard impresarios of his time. Born in Tuscany, he served in Rome from the 1660s as a highly connected organist, teacher,…