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Those with more rarefied taste were likely satisfied too, as the conductor Harry Bicket and his ensemble of early-music players offered up a surfeit of exquisite music-making.

From New York Times • May 9, 2022

She will also have authority over the library’s poetry recitals, screenings, public talks and concerts, including the highly regarded Folger Consort, an early-music ensemble.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

Not long ago, Silver Lake-based early-music collector John Levin was contacted by a seller in the Midwest who’d come across a box containing two unmarked brown wax cylinders and a few other items.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2020

Step back into the distant past with this musical play about Daniel’s confrontation of Belshazzar — composed eight centuries ago in Beauvais, France, and now staged by early-music authority Anne Azéma.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2019

Salieri’s cause has benefitted greatly from early-music performance styles: the tangy timbres and propulsive phrasing in Rousset’s renditions give vibrancy to music that can sound listless on modern instruments—like Mozart without the harmonic jolts.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019