Since the 1970s continuo performance of secco recitative has been intensively discussed in the historically oriented field of performance practice. The trigger was the idea, probably stemming from ...

What a year 1707 was. In that year, two 22-year old German composers wrote some of their most precocious and important vocal music, pieces that to this day remain central to the repertoire. One of the ...

Complicated love triangles, hidden identities and a love song to a tree ― George Frideric Handel’s dramedy “Xerxes” makes its Detroit Opera debut this weekend. The production is an adaptation of ...

Ian Page’s reading didn’t start with the bang and thrust of Rene Jacobs's Harmonia Mundi recording: initially it felt a little well-mannered. But there was a lot more to come, where Page captured the ...