For more than 30 years, English early-music ensemble Fretwork has dedicated itself to the repertoire of a single stringed instrument. The viol—also known as the viola da gamba—reached the height of ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Internationally-celebrated countertenor Iestyn Davies is returning to Vancouver this fall, ...

Kanneh-Mason’s second album is a delight; Davies and Fretwork excel in early baroque German music; and the pick of Proms week one With its brilliant fugue finale, Samuel Barber’s heavyweight yet ...

CAMBRIDGE — The Boston Early Music Festival opened its 27th concert season on Friday at First Church in Cambridge with the British viol consort Fretwork, Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc, and, as always ...

However, This Year's Midnight, performed in near-darkness, and billed as a meditation of songs, poetry and instrumental music for the winter solstice, is more ambitious and ranges more widely across ...

It’s probably musical heresy to suggest it, but arguably, the instrumental works of John Dowland and Johann Strauss II share a common feature: dancing. Indubitably, unlike a Viennese waltz, a galliard ...

It’s a gorgeous work of homage – a “ritualised memory piece” – to a composer Muhly (pictured below) clearly reveres, finding correlations and correspondences between Gibbons’ writing and Muhly’s own ...

Votaries of Early Music Vancouver (EMV) convened last week in downtown Christ Church Cathedral, their customary shrine, for yet another born-again experience. Officiating clergy at last week’s ...

Bach died in 1750 with The Art of Fugue incomplete, and he left no indications on the manuscript as to the work's instrumentation. Nearly every new recording meets these two challenges in different ...