arte liveweb has Bayreuth's RW 200 concert with Eva Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha, Kwangchul Youn, and the Bayreuth orchestra all dressed up in their winter gig clothes, under the direction of Christian Thielemann.
Paul O'Dette discusses his new album of lute tunes of Francesco da Milano on the Gramophone Mag podcast. I particularly like the tidbit of information he imparts about period payscale for Brilliant Lutenists, and think we would do well to emulate.
And speaking of, it's two weeks to Boston Early Music Festival, a whole week of staged opera, semi-staged opera, official concerts, fringe concerts, master classes, lec-dems, petting zoo, and guerrilla sidewalk period bagpiping. If you've dreamed of dropping a fiver in a busker's theorbo case, there may be no better opportunity.
Thanks for the heads-up on the Bayreuth Birthday Bash!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome as always, and thank you! Between the lot of us I think we do pretty well filling up each others' slack time :-)
DeleteThat's the whole point, right?
DeleteJust wish I had more slack time to take it all in! But I think we will all do very well in our respective Old Folks Homes, so long as they let us keep our internet connections.
DeleteAssuming you are going - lots of news about the piping please!
ReplyDeleteWill do my best to buttonhole them this year. They usually turn up after the opera, and I think they play pipes made by Michael MacHarg, who is sort of the American equivalent of Julian Goodacre...at least as far as the period bagpipe making is concerned.
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