Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek with Bruce Molsky, fiddle, banjo and guitar 1865 Anonymous 4 commemorates the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War’s end. They relate through song the experiences of men and women from both the North and South—the agony of separated lovers, mothers and sons; the fears of those (more…)

Geoffrey Williams, countertenor; Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone; Craig Phillips, bass A Lily Among Thorns The a cappella vocal quartet New York Polyphony performs 15th century English motets by Dunstable, Power, Plummer, Byttering, and Pyamour—plus a bouquet of works by the medieval Machaut, other masters of the early renaissance, and present-day composers (more…)

Edwin Huizinga, violin; Anne Timberlake, recorders Anna Steinhoff, cello; John Lenti, theorbo and guitar The Naughty List: Music By Braggarts, Hotheads, Curmudgeons and Snobs Not all composers were nice guys. Some were famously illtempered, spiteful, vitriolic, hotheaded, stuck up…. The “Naughty List” compiled by the Wayward Sisters includes just such obnoxious men: Matthew Locke, Tarquinio (more…)

Louise Basbas, director A Spanish Pange Lingua: Sacred Music of Victoria The Choir of Corpus Christi Church singles out Tomás Luis de Victoria, the great master of Renaissance polyphony. Although he spent most of his life in Rome where he wrote the program’s hymns and motets, he happily returned to his native Spain to serve (more…)

Monica Huggett, director and violin Concerti Bizzarri In a selection of unique baroque concertos, the talented students of Juilliard415 play unusual, even anachronistic solo instruments—the viola d’amore, oboe d’amore, and viola da gamba. Along with hearing new sonorities and toe-tapping rhythms, you might find a few delightfully obscure composers—for example, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. Visit juilliard.edu for (more…)