For the holidays, Tempesta di Mare, Piffaro the Renaissance Band, and Choral Arts Philadelphia shine a light into one of the most brilliant corners of Europe: old Dresden. Christmas in Germany serves up an amazing.
Art and propaganda have rarely enjoyed a more fruitful conjunction. While Louis’s armies were winning on Europe’s battlefields, his music conquered its stages and concert halls. Tempesta di Mare’s upcoming show, Apollo at Play: Lully.
Aaron Sheehan has always been one of Tempesta di Mare’s favorite singers. His first appearance with Tempesta was in 2008 and every time he’s come back, it’s been an event.
"…Although the theme was “Great Books,” only listening, not reading, was required." — Broadway World - Classical
"…Playing on both a baroque, gut-strung violin and a metal-strung modern instrument, Ngai proved himself equally at home on both instruments and in both older and newer music." — Chestnut Hill Local
" If Handel had been able to hear it, I think he might have said he wanted Tempesta di Mare and Choral Arts to play his second performance with him." — Local Arts Live
"Did so little happen during that half century between Heinrich Schutz (who died in 1672) and J.S. Bach's heyday in the 1720s? Tempesta di Mare is among a handful of baroque orchestras correcting that perception.
“ ★★★★★… Tempesta di Mare has been making gorgeous Baroque music for a decade and is the only American group to record on the English Chandos label. This wonderful Fasch album shows us why.” Ariama,.
Tempesta di Mare is celebrating the end of a full decade of Baroque music-making with a ploy worthy of the Baroque functionaries who planned court entertainments built around clever fancies: Tempesta is conducting a three-concert,.
…uniformly excellent, with precise intonation, energetic tempi, and virtuosic performances “Johann Friedrich Fasch is one of the most ignored yet most interesting composers of the late Baroque. This disc presents premiere recordings by Philadelphia’s baroque.