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A concert at the Andrzej Markowski International Wratislavia Cantans Festival that was anything but traditional or predictable.

Ensemble Correspondances give a virtuoso display of polychoral music from Marc-Antoine Charpentier and his Italian contemporaries.

Though they play Baroque music, the ensemble L’Arpeggiata is more like a jazz band than a traditional orchestra. Anchored by a continuo (rhythm section?) led by artistic director and theorbist Christina Pluhar, they are joined by various other instrumentalists, singers, and even dancers, fitting each of their projects.

If Vienna is the holy temple of classical music (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Bruckner and Mahler all spent large tracts of their careers here), then the Musikverein is its holy of holies. Just soaking in all that history makes a visit here into a special occasion, and the heavily gilt halls are as opulent and redolent of empire as you might imagine.

In sporting parlance, the "dream-team" of countertenor Iestyn Davies and Richard Egarr at the harpsichord came together last night for a Wigmore Hall concert held to mark the 10 years directorship of John Gilhooly, and was the perfect representation of his decade at the helm: singer + harpsichord, immaculate programming, consummate musicianship, scholarship, unheard-of treasures, blended with a da

Die Starsängerin Magdalena Kožená und das La Cetra Barockorchester unter Andrea Marcon sorgten im neobarocken Stadttheater für Festspiel-Feeling.

Le récital d'Eva Zaïcik avec Les Épopées restera dans les annales beaunoises, de même que la version de concert très incarnée de Didon et Énée par les Arts Florissants.

Die amerikanische Mezzosopranistin tourt mit ihrem Programm My Favourite Things durch Europa und trat auch in beim Grafenegg Festival auf.

En compagnie de William Christie et ses Arts Florissants, la mezzo Lea Desandre et le contre-ténor Jakub Józef Orliński ont réservé une soirée délectable avec leur programme très original.   

Au Voces8 Centre, la célèbre soprano entraîne son auditoire dans un voyage de toute beauté, allant de la poésie mystique médiévale aux chants de l’holocauste.

Tras varias cancelaciones, se presentó por fin la propuesta de Joyce DiDonato e Il pomo d'oro, My favourite things, un magnífico y personal proyecto que invita a la calma a la vez que repasa las características más relevantes de la música barroca.

Dentro del Ciclo Universo Barroco del CNDM, se presentó el Ensemble 1700 liderado por la flautista Dorothee Oberlinger, que ofreció un virtuoso concierto con un programa inspirado en la noche.