Early music
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She is revolutionising the classroom scourge – blasting raw experimental music through it, sometimes playing two at once. Meet recorder powerhouse Laura Cannell
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The Marian Consort sang fluidly and Gerald Kyd played Gesualdo, the murderous 16th-century composer prince, in this part-concert, part-play
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From the sounds of Shylock’s Venice to a rowdy, recreated 17th-century bar, the gathering’s first weekend offset classical virtuosity with folksy vigour
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Whether raunchy or religious, everything Purcell wrote had the same unstuffy grit. Ahead of her show at the London festival of baroque music, the folk star pays tribute to a champion of the vernacular
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Both Mendelssohns were composers, yet it is Felix not Fanny who is remembered. Why have so many female artists remained unheard?
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Other lives: Singer who launched many collaborations and taught music to schoolchildren for more than 20 years
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Magnificat celebrates 25 years with an exemplary recording of 16th-century works inspired by Savonarola
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The Early Opera Company gave a thrilling account of Charpentier’s Actéon, the London Handel Players brought baroque dances to life and the Huelgas Ensemble shone a light on Firminus Caron
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The Juilliard’s early music ensemble, Juilliard415, play not just Bach, but Beethoven, Haydn and new works – one sign of the way in which the school’s latest performing arts programme is behind new trends in period performance
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The other Robert Johnson, the 17th-century lutenist, was pitted against his better-known namesake in a sublime show, writes Alfred Hickling
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The Arakaendar Bolivia Choir cut loose in the church and Jordi Savall explored fandango and 18th-century Canary Island jazz, writes Alfred Hickling
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Various venues, York
In among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations, writes Alfred Hickling
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Various venues, York Even the spectre of death hanging over the festival couldn’t dampen Baroque Fever’s spirits, writes Alfred Hickling
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York, Various venues
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South Bank Centre, London
Queen Mary’s Big Belly CD review – 1555 and all that
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