CD Review by Kelly Dean Hansen During Zachary Carrettin’s ten-year tenure as music director, the Boulder Bach Festival gradually moved away from a compressed series of concerts in a single […]
Il Grande Amore
COmpass REsonance instrumental & vocal artists present several baroque genres in our 42nd season final concert. Paul Miller returns—with his viola d’amore; Adam Ewing sings one of JSB’s few works […]
Boulder Bach Festival: Next Generations
A review by Betsy Schwarm Spring 2022 brings the 41st season of the Boulder Bach Festival. In lesser hands, 41 years of a single composer – even the mighty JS […]
A Festival Celebrates Bach – Among Others
A review by Marc Shulgold Oh, sure – J.S. Bach was there, represented by three marvelous chamber works. And there was music by his famous old friend Telemann. But so […]
Bach and Beyond: Boulder Bach’s Spring “Festival Week”
Johann Sebastian Bach: the music and the name are timeless, like a Gibraltar of great music. Beethoven has myriad admirers, as does Mozart. However, both masters studied JS Bach’s works, […]
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