Category Archives: Recording
New CD Release Brahms’ Serenades on October 9
San Francisco, CA – September 24, 2012 – Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra announces the release of Brahms’ Serenades on October 9,...
Impeccable…Evocative
You’ve never heard anything like it…Winter is simply staggering and reason enough to own this CD…Blumenstock [is] as fearless as...
NEW ON CD FROM PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE PRODUCTIONS – HANDEL: ATALANTA
Handel’s 1736 opera Atalanta concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks in its first year of performance; it has only...
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GRAMMY® Nomination for our Haydn Symphonies CD!
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Music Director Nicholas McGegan are thrilled to announce that the second release from their new Philharmonia...
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Our new Vivaldi Violin Concertos CD is CD of the Week at KDFC!
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra/Nicholas McGegan Vivaldi/The Four Seasons Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s newest CD features studio recordings of seven Vivaldi violin concertos,...
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Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock Celebrates 30 Years with Philharmonia Baroque
The Bay Area has benefited from Elizabeth Blumenstock’s presence in the violin section of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for 30 years...
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“Glorious, exquisitely polished performances”
From The Guardian (U.K.): “Philharmonia Baroque, San Francisco’s resident period-instrument orchestra, launches its own CD label with a disc that...
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“These are really fine performances.” – The New York Times
The New York Times reviews our HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 88, 101, 104 CD on June 24, 2011 New Haydn Recordings by...
“This is how you play a Haydn minuet.”
Michelle Thomson reviews our new Haydn Symphonies CD for sfcv.org: McGegan “gets” Haydn as very few do. The verve and...
New York Times reviews Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: “Flawless… astounding”
This review of Berlioz: Les Nuits d’Été/Handel: Arias with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra appears...
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Recording
Philharmonia Baroque Productions releases new Lorraine Hunt Lieberson recording. Beginning March 8, you can hear the incomparable Lorraine Hunt Lieberson...
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A new record label & Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
As part of its 30th Anniversary Season, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra announced yesterday the start of its own recording label –...
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Brahms’ Serenades: New York Times Best