(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 Domspatzen (Cathedral choir) with La Cetra’s period brass players, took a more solemn route, leaning into the weight of its occasion. In the majestic setting of Regensburg Cathedral, where liturgical music {…}
(Photo Credit: Jean-Baptiste Millot) In a striking counterpart to the shadowy, midnight Strozzi program just days prior, this afternoon concert at the Former Minorite Church of St. Salvator bathed the music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi in broad daylight—both literally and figuratively. Sunlight streamed through the high clerestory windows, casting a warm glow over the three elegantly dressed sopranos and onto the {…}
（Photo Credit: Step by Step Productions） The 40th Regensburg Early Music Festival concluded with a gesture as grand as its milestone year. A performance of Alessandro Striggio’s “Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno”—a 40-part polyphonic mass—transcended the bounds of concert and became a revived rite. Long queues stretched down the street outside St. Blasius Church, as festivalgoers—some wheeling suitcases—gathered as {…}
（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. The Hathor Consort, directed by Romina Lischka, and sopranos Dorothee Mields and Hana Blažíková transformed the church’s cool stillness into a charged atmosphere of intimacy and theatrical depth. They allowed her music {…}
（Photo Credit：Sim Canetty-Clarke） In the sombre setting of St. Blasius Church, the Tenebrae Choir—fourteen singers under the direction of Nigel Short—restored clarity, transparency, and delicacy to the music of Palestrina. In contrast to the grandeur and lush resonance of the Dom’s opening concert one day earlier, this smaller-scale a cappella program allowed every line of Palestrina’s polyphony to emerge with {…}
