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FROM AROUND THE WORLD: BOSTON.(Review)
Boston Baroque presented a polished, semi-staged production of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea (seen Oct. 27). Music director Martin Pearlman prepared his own performance version from Monteverdi's incomplete manuscripts; the result was a beautifully balanced, coherent and dramatically persuasive account. The superb cast combined some of Boston's most accomplished singers with brilliant newcomers; under Pearlman's baton, they worked beautifully as an ensemble.
The greatness of L'Incoronazione lies in the complexity of Monteverdi's characterizations. In the title role, Judith Lovat was simultaneously steely and yielding, besotted and calculating. Mezzo Deanne Meek sang Nero with virtuosity, a winning swagger and chilling casual brutality. With his gorgeous, expressive voice, countertenor Bejun Mehta made a deeply ...
- Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music.(Martin Pearlman, Boston...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound April 1, 2003 700+ words
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque. Telarc CD-80594. Time was, you couldn't...Mackerras? They're all among my favorites, but this new entry from Martin Pearlman and his original-instruments group, Boston Baroque, is a good...
- Bach: Mass in B Minor Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc 2CD-80517).(Review)
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Nehring, Karl W. September 1, 2000 700+ words
Bach: Mass in B Minor Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc 2CD-80517) Audiophiles still tend to expect grandiose sonic blockbusters from Telarc. For the B Minor Mass, for example...
- NANCY MAULTSBY, SUSANNAH WATERS, RUSSELL BRAUN, LAURA TUCKER, RICHARD CLEMENT,...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff November 21, 1996 700+ words
...But the real attractions of the recording lie elsewhere. Chief among them is the unpretentious approach of music director Martin Pearlman, who keeps the performance on a chamber-theater scale: intimate, delightful and involving. The period-instrument...
- Taking the full measure of Monteverdi
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff November 13, 1995 700+ words
BOSTON BAROQUE Martin Pearlman, music director Performing Monteverdi's Vespers At: Jordan Hall, Saturday...house in Jordan Hall Saturday night when Martin Pearlman opened the season with the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. And despite the heat...
- Monteverdi, el mal pagado padre de la ópera moderna.(Claudio Monteverdi,...
- Magazine article from: Contenido González, Rubén November 1, 1999 700+ words
...comisionado para elaborar la msica, Claudio Monteverdi, en vez de saltar instantneamente a...contra los hngaros. Nacido en Cremona, Monteverdi fue bautizado el 15 de mayo de 1567...la campaa y olvid la promesa hecha a Monteverdi de convertirlo en maestro de capilla...
- Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Calcagno, Mauro September 1, 2005 700+ words
Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica. By Massimo...of madrigals (1605), Claudio Monteverdi announced his treatise Seconda prattica...two years earlier. The "Artusi-Monteverdi controversy," as Claude Palisca...
- Claudio Monteverdi. The Third Book of Madrigals for Five Voices (Apt for...
- Magazine article from: Notes Gerbino, Giuseppe March 1, 2004 700+ words
Claudio Monteverdi. The Third Book of Madrigals for Five...score & 7 parts).] Claudio Monteverdi. Scherzi musicali a tre voci. Introduzione...49 p.]. 24 [euro].] Claudio Monteverdi. L'Orfeo: Favola in musica. Reprint...
- The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes SAUNDERS, STEVEN March 1, 2001 700+ words
The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context...Jeffrey Kurtzman's new book on Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. Kurtzman has devoted...includes an important dissertation ("The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 and Their Relationship...