Delights from Baroque Carpathia
Johannes Caioni
The young Hungarian ensemble The Bacchus Consort is streaming baroque music from the Carpathian Basin on New York-based Salon Sanctuary Concerts’ experimental series B Live. Seeries Artistic Director Jessica Gould, fresh off the success of her first film
Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion
, aims to broaden the horizons of historical performance practice, especially the baroque period. The Bacchus Consort’s performance of Salamone Rossi’s
Sinfonia Grave à 5 had opened Gould’s Babylon film.
Gould’s online series has recently been expanding into New England, finding some its most recent backdrops in the Berkshires. “Musica Hungarica: Baroque Treasures of the Carpathian Basin,