Tempesta’s Silver Jubilee and Full Speed Ahead!
Plus, a conversation with Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone. Move over, Semiquincentennial! Here comes a Quadranscentennial, and it’s Tempesta di Mare’s! Twenty-five years ago, on…
No Farther Than Your Own Backyard
Philadelphia Baroque’s Semiquincentennial Moment: It’s early music’s first! Believe it or not, this year’s America250 celebration is the first one of the quintennial (every fifty…
Bringing the magic back: the Venetian Ospedali
“The young singers, just mentioned, are absolute nightingales; they have a facility of executing difficult divisions equal to that of birds. They did such things…
Featured Musician: Gaia Saetermoe-Howard, oboe
Oboist Gaia Saetermoe-Howard and Tempesta di Mare’s Coordinator of Marketing & Administration, Rachel Romean, met up for a chat about playing baroque oboe, curating a…
Tempesta Book Club: Every Valley
Tempesta di Mare Book Club, an occasional series: Charles King’s Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s “Messiah”. It’s not often…
Lost and Found
Richard Stone says part of it was “easy.” That’s hard to believe. It seems very hard, if not impossible. But not for Richard. He’s talking…
Ospedali Book Club
Time to curl up with a thrilling read Fall’s here! Bright leaves, spice lattes, pumpkins—and Tempesta di Mare’s big Hidden Virtuosas program. What better way…
Faustina Bordoni. Legend.
It was a pamphlet that went out to the London public immediately after a performance of Bononcini’s Astianatte at King’s Theatre in 1727 describing an…
BACH TRIO SONATAS part 3: Sonatas 4–6
Part 3: Sonatas 4-6 The first movement of Sonata 4, BWV 528, survives as an ensemble piece in the opening of Cantata 76, set for…
Fresh Take: Tempesta’s Bach Trio Sonatas
The six trio sonatas by J. S. Bach BWV 525-530, are special—famously so. “One can’t say enough about their beauty,” wrote Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Bach’s…
Bach Trio Sonatas: Sonatas 1-3
Part 2: Sonatas 1-3 Perky in its outer two fast movements, wistfully melancholy in the middle slow movement, Sonata 1, BWV 525, also survives in…
Bach Trio Sonatas: An Introduction
part 1: our backstage view The first weekend in April, the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players will perform the full set of Bach’s six trio…