Music
American Classical Orchestra presents Astronomical
NEW YORK – American Classical Orchestra presents Astronomical in an evening of virtuosity, authenticity, and imaginative programming.
Edward A Kliszus
NEW YORK – American Classical Orchestra presents Astronomical in an evening of virtuosity, authenticity, and imaginative programming.
NEW YORK – American Classical Orchestra Performs Bach’s B Minor Mass with Conductor Thomas Crawford leading a glorious, miraculous, and formidable concert expressing and honoring the provenance of Bach’s monumental musical work.
The Academy of Sacred Drama and the American Classical Orchestra presented a celebration of Christmas at Corpus Christi Church in Harlem, NYC, performing Vespers in the Season of Christmas by Antonio Gianettini and Gesu’ Nato, A Christmas Oratorio, by Antonio Bencini.
The The ACO presents Healing Bach featured sopranos Sherezade Panthaki and Corrine Byrne, mezzo-soprano Sylvia Leith, countertenor Daniel Moody, tenors Brian Giebler and Lawrence Jones, and bass-baritones Edmund Milly and Joseph Parrish. This astounding coterie of gifted musicians presented continuously breathtakingly beautiful and inspired performances.
The performance of Mozart’s Requiem, K526, was glorious and ecstatic. The sui generis admixture of rich sounds from soloists, chorus, and orchestra was superb. At the same time, the sumptuous luminosity of the famed Lacrimosa was almost more than an emotive listener could process without soulful introspection.
American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall with period instruments expressed the music’s affektenlehre, mysticism, reverence, and beauty
Henry Purcell’s inventive Chaconne opened the program, performed with superb musicianship by the ACO’s performers, thereby setting the standard of sublime artistry to follow, beautifully filmed, recorded, and produced in the magnificent Harlem Parish setting. How delightful to hear, see and experience representative 17th-century works performed on period instruments. The imaginatively engaged listener propelled by their suspension of belief is anachronistically transported into a magical musical experience.
