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Set of antique and newly composed music by Hyeronimus Kapsberger and Claudio Ambrosini evokes the sounds of Venice
Read MoreFrench choreographer Hubert Hazebroucq performs 15th- and 16th-century dances to the sound of a live wind band
Read MoreRussian virtuoso’s passion for pianoforte revives original voice of such legendary 19th-century composers as Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Read MoreAhead of the Early Music Vancouver presentation, Alexander Weimann leads a chat with accomplished violinist Robert Mealy, the group’s codirector
Read MoreMongolian traditions, Czech strings, Baroque beauties, and more on the music calendar
Read MoreQuicksilver Baroque Ensemble plays a program of sonatas by Italian and German composers
Read MoreEarly Music Vancouver program with Pacific Baroque Orchestra includes a “Fictive Wedding Cantata” that she’s painstakingly compiled from the composer’s lesser-known works
Read MoreOfferings from the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, the VSO, Early Music Vancouver, and more take place on February 14 and 15
Read MoreLUMEN Festival concert features the world premiere of Fictive Wedding Cantata by acclaimed German soprano Dorothee Mields
Read MoreEarly Music Vancouver’s presentation of the work features accompaniment on the Romanesque harp
Read MoreThe powerhouse mezzo-soprano sings a program that includes Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 by J.S. Bach and Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini, ZWV 8
Read MoreAlexander Weimann directs the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, and five soloists in afternoon of holiday works
Read MoreSeasonal standouts include a massive choral Messiah, and different takes on A Christmas Carol—including one with 10-foot-high puppets
Read MoreRespected musician plays two shows devoted to India’s oldest-surviving classical genre alongside pakhavaj artist Tejas Tope
Read MoreRenowned countertenor and Renaissance viol consort play a German Baroque programme based on the latter group’s Signum Classics album
Read MoreThe pandemic sent Italian lute virtuoso Michele Pasotti looking back at the poets of the Black Plague—and the way Ars Nova music provided relief
Read MoreAlexander Weimann’s fresh take on Bach’s “apex” of Baroque keyboard music is set to open Early Music Vancouver season
Read MorePacific Baroque Orchestra performs a new arrangement of the variations which incorporates Johann Gottlieb Goldberg’s Trio Sonata No. 4 in C Major
Read MoreBritish a cappella artists VOCES8 are here in February as LUMEN Festival makes return in the new year
Read MoreEMV’s Suzie LeBlanc hosted a charming exchange of ideas between English tenor Charles Daniels and Vancouver-based Hindustani vocalist Shruti Ramani
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