Where things depart from what might have been expected is in its performing choices. Dorothee Mields has a fine, conventional voice for this kind of music – pure, pretty and with clear, largely ...

What new ideas can a Christmas concert possibly still have up its sleeve? “Pastorale,” conceived and led by Dorothee Oberlinger with Ensemble 1700, offered a compelling answer by returning Christmas ...

The Tbilisi Baroque Festival 2025 moves across the city with the steady pulse of a tradition that keeps discovering new chambers of its own architecture. The opening night with Shavnabada and the ...

Balance was a problem though, with the players often overpowering the singers (no choir here, the chorales and choruses all sung one to a part). The orchestra was bigger, with two desks each of first ...

Already praised as one of the most promising young Swiss writers, Elmiger offers with "The Dutch Women" a nightmarish literary expedition into the heart of the jungle. The German Book Prize, which ...

Fans of Jamie Oliver should probably approach the third studio album by Irish singer CMAT with some caution. Her creative fires stoked by an irrational dislike of the award-winning celebrity chef, the ...

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) wrapped up its annual Bach Festival a long way from its German baroque roots, with a trio of bravura vocal concerts of distinctly feminine and Italianate inspiration. Of ...

(Photo Credit：Michael Vogl) Instead of the festive sparkle one might expect from a 40th anniversary, the 2025 opening concert of Regensburg’s Tage Alter Musik, given by the famous Regensburger ...

Inside the austere, echoing stone of Regensburg’s 12th-century Romanesque Schottenkirche, Barbara Strozzi’s music found a space as resonant and complex as the woman herself. The Hathor Consort, ...

（Photo Credit: Hanno Meier) Inside the austere, echoing stone of Regensburg’s 12th-century Romanesque Schottenkirche, Barbara Strozzi’s music found a space as resonant and complex as the woman herself ...

Have you ever fallen in love at first listen? I’ve just done just that. Hearing Dorothee Mields sing Johann Hermann Schein’s “Lehre uns bedenken” sent me running to the Internet to purchase a copy of ...

Why: Fans of music from the 17th and 18th centuries are in for a treat this week as celebrated soprano Dorothee Mields joins the Pacific Baroque Festival for three performances at the Alix Goolden ...