Early music specialists routinely call Claudio Monteverdi a “towering” composer. Besides inventing opera as we know it, the Italian single-handedly bridged the Western music tradition’s Renaissance ...
NEW YORK — Tradition dictates that the musical calendar year ends, for most concertgoers, with Handel’s “Messiah.” But 10 years ago, a plucky early-music ensemble rang in the New Year with an even ...