…period instruments concert on Hill the best ever “Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, opened its 10th anniversary season with a concert Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. The program of music.

Four Stars “The second of the six Early Music Festival programs featured only two composers: George Frideric Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti, more than sufficient to give us a sustained evening of high-quality Baroque music, both.

“Rearranging the master — The second concert [in the Festival] provided another example of the scholarship, musical imagination, and performing skill that supports the best early music performances. Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, directors of Tempesta.

“The Saturday performance at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill was recorded live—the latest in Tempesta di Mare’s relationship with the Chandos label—and was worth preserving. The group, expanded to 25 or so musicians, was more.

“…sensational end to 2011 Fasch-Festtage’s first week The Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare underlined the fact that they are utterly devoted to Fasch’s music in the Catherinen-Saal in Zerbst tonight with an often breath-taking.

Early-music groups are in the business of attracting audiences to music they didn’t know they were missing. So the question at last weekend’s Tempesta di Mare concerts was what sort of keys can unlock the.

Tempesta di Mare’s imaginative co-directors based their Characters of the Dance program on an inspired theme. They preceded Bach’s First Orchestral Suite with two pieces that contained examples of the baroque dances that Bach elaborated in the.

“The concert drew an audience that literally packed the church and that enthusiastically rewarded the eight chamber players of the orchestra with hearty and heart-warming applause. It was unlikely that there was another concert dedicated.

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.