Early Music Today Magazine Dec 2016 - Feb 2017 Edizione posteriore

Sir John Eliot Gardiner takes Monteverdi’s three surviving operas around the world for a cycle of meticulously conceived concert performances; Adrian Chandler introduces La Serenissima’s grand musical tour of Italy at St John’s Smith Square; and the Brabant Ensemble’s Stephen Rice discusses Pierre de la Rue.

Plus, BBC Radio 3’s Lucie Skeaping wishes happy birthday to Lotti and Campion; the Tallis Scholars on recording all of Josquin des Prés’s 18 masses; choral director Stephen Layton celebrates a plethora of milestones this December; the fundamentals of playing the early harp; the Dunedin Consort’s John Butt; recorder consort Palisander; early music festivals, courses and performances this winter; and your chance to WIN Gesualdo’s searing madrigals on CD!