“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”
The Boston Camerata
Concert Review: “The Play of Daniel” — The Boston Camerata’s Production is One for the Ages
The Boston Camerata’s imaginative staging of The Play of Daniel generated plenty of “serious fun.”
Classical Music Review: The Boston Camerata Tackles the Snarly Complexity of the “Messe de Notre Dame”
The Boston Camerata proffers a constant sense of discovery and rediscovery, of unusually lively musicianship and scholarship, and a sprightly sense of the humanity – and the snarly complexity – behind the music it performs.
Classical Music Review: The Boston Camerata’s Enthralling Hispanic Christmas
Spirits were lifted; those in need of holiday cheer got a massive dose of it. Bravo to The Boston Camerata and to Les Fleurs des Caraïbes.
Classical Music Sampler: February 2012
February feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.
Classical Music Review: The Boston Camerata’s Extraordinary Bridge
All in all, this Boston Camerata concert featured fine musicianship, expertise in voice and every instrument, scholarly renditions of the scores and texts, and joyful music making.
Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival, Part Two, Exhibition and The Boston Camerata
BEMF is, quite simply, paradise for those who love early music, and they seem to be a different audience than those who show up for, say, the Boston Symphony or any of the excellent chamber music groups around town.
Classical Music Sampler: June 2011
June is not a month that lends itself to an easy gathering of concert recommendations, mostly because it presents an an embarrassment of riches. Many festivals are in full swing, others just beginning.
Classical Music Sampler: December 2009
By Caldwell Titcomb Dec. 1: The Tufts Early Music Ensemble, including singers and instrumentalists, will present a free concert of secular music by the great 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay and his contemporaries, whom we rarely get to hear in live performance. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 8 p.m.