2012–2013 Series: “Handel’s Messiah”
" 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
Feature: Matthew Glandorf: Messiah Man
Conductor and organist Matthew Glandorf has been Artistic Director of Choral Arts Philadelphia since 2004 and Artistic Director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia since 2008. During his tenure at Choral Arts Philadelphia, Glandorf has.
Feature: Lisa Terry, Cellist and Gambist
When Lisa Terry joined Tempesta di Mare as principal cello this fall, Tempesta didn’t just get a new cellist. They got a whole new world of looking at low strings. Audiences will be able to.
2012–2013 Series: “Art of the Prophets”
"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.
Feature: The Sultry Art of Prophets
Say goodbye to chilly winter! Here comes something hot. In Art of the Prophets, Tempesta di Mare celebrates sizzling church music from seventeenth-century Germany.
CD: “Fasch Orchestral Works, Volume 3”
“ ★★★★★… 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,.
2011–2012 Series: “Opus 10” Festival: two weekends of musical tens
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,.
CD: “Fasch Orchestral Works, Volume 2”
…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.
2011–2012 Series: “Italians in Vienna: cantatas and concertos with Michael Maniaci”
…consummate artistry “Male soprano solid as a rock: The star of Tempesta di Mare’s Sunday afternoon concert was guest vocalist Michael Maniaci. In all three of the secular cantatas Sunday afternoon for an audience that.
2011–2012 Series: “Leipzig Shortlist: Telemann, Fasch, Graupner or Bach”
…exemplary technical mastery, interpretive integrity and stylish panache “As it has done over the decade of its life, Tempesta di Mare performed a program [Leipzig Shortlist] that not only proved an historical point but that.