Rottsolk’s voice is supple and stylish…the performances are unflaggingly attractive and reveal one beautifully crafted aria after another.” Gramophone, July 2010 “A splendid showcase for these eloquent and committed musicians.” International Record Review, May 2010
“After some 290 years of existence, J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos would be expected to have found some sort of optimum manner of performance. And they seemed to until the last decade, when this music became.
“Tempesta di Mare performed Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Lamentations of Jeremiah Friday night, March 26, in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. Tempesta’s directors Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone divided the six [cantatas] to make two equal halves.
“Independent Presbyterian Church concluded its annual Religious Arts Festival with a fiery performance by Tempesta di Mare. Titled “Venice to Leipzig,” the program featured high Baroque selections by Bach, Telemann, and Vivaldi, and a couple.
“The first nice thing was the turnout. It was encouraging to see so many folks on hand in Towson University’s large concert hall. (Pro Musica usually holds forth in the center’s more intimate venue.) The.
“Not one just to play Bach’s masterpieces, Tempesta in its Brandenburg series contextualizes the music within like-minded works from Bach’s time—a great practice with any repertoire. Even minor figures show how differently creative minds reflected.
“Performances were imposing and forthright, eschewing the polite tidiness of many baroque groups. Tempesta maintained a bit of unruliness that was more than an attractive counterweight to the music’s innate formality. The horns came through.
“The ensemble Tempesta di Mare from Philadelphia/USA demonstrated how wonderful such dusted-off scores can sound to a virtually sold-out audience in the Muthaus at Burg Hardegsen. From the onset the crisp-playing musicians whisked away any.
“Friday night heard the East Coast premiere of the complete Italian-language version of George Frideric Handel’s cantata, Aci, Galatea & Polifemo. Tempesta di Mare, with an 18-member period instrument orchestra and three vocal soloists, glittered with.
“Amid the graciousness-from-centuries-past environs of the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side, Philadelphia baroque music group Tempesta di Mare was having its New York debut Sunday in a prestigious, mainstream concert series, and playing.