Spitalfields music festival opened, by chance, with this beautifully performed and dramatic revival of baroque cantatas by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre ...

No love is as unrequited as that propelling an Italian baroque cantata. Take, for example, Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Su le sponde del Tebro,” sung Thursday night by soprano Nola Richardson — joined by ...

The Perfection of Music - Masterpieces of the French Baroque is a new series of French Baroque chamber music. This album, Volume 1 in the series, explores the beautiful cantata repertoire, featuring ...

A late programme change meant that soprano Dorothee Mields, soloist with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman in this opening concert of Spitalfields Music Summer festival, had to take on ...

This is not so much a cantata as a comic opera that tells of an addiction to coffee, which was a pressing social problem in 18th-century Leipzig where the work was premiered at Zimmerman’s Coffee ...

Long before über-hipsters indulged their caffeine cravings at chic third-wave coffee bars, there was Café Zimmermann. This famed German coffee house, towering four stories above Catharine Street in ...

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