Early Music/Baroque

Michael Zwiebach - June 3, 2013

Hats off to Susan McMane, who will be taking her Young Women’s Choral Projects charges through a sampling of music, including Galuppi’s marvelous Dixit Dominus.

Michael Zwiebach - April 30, 2013

It has become a tradition for Chamber Music San Francisco to offer the Brandenburg Concertos on Mother’s Day weekend. 

Michael Zwiebach - April 26, 2013

For its final regular season concert, American Bach Soloists will present Handel’s dramatic cantata Apollo e Dafne (1709-1710). 

Michael Zwiebach - April 17, 2013

Jepetha, one of the greatest music dramas ever penned, promises to be a fine performance.

Michael Zwiebach - March 28, 2013

It might seem crazy to some, but the Bay Area is hosting two great harpsichordists in concerts on the same day over the first April weekend.

Michael Zwiebach - March 8, 2013

Cantare con Vivo is doing Sergei Rachmaninov’s deeply moving Vespers (All-Night Vigil) as their spring concert. 

Michael Zwiebach - March 8, 2013

Clerestory, the men’s choral group that is partly a spin-off from Chanticleer, is back in action on the weekend, with a program they’re calling “Bacchanalia”, a celebration of spring and music about springtime appetites.

Michael Zwiebach - March 6, 2013

This is a decorous early-music concert featuring the marvelous soprano Laura Heimes, trumpeter-extraordinaire John Thiessen, and the crew from Voices of Music, faves of SFCV and famed already for their widely-viewed YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Michael Zwiebach - February 13, 2013

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director Ben Simon always concocts a hook that appeals to me and puts me in the mood to hear a concert.

Michael Zwiebach - January 30, 2013

The Bay Area is so awash in great early music players, that when San Francisco Early Music Society decided to feature more local groups on their programming, it opened itself to more diversity than probably anyone but the local HIP community knew was out there.