The main draw for this show was countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, who delivered exactly what the crowd had come to hear: a vocal sound of inexplicable beauty combined with equally remarkable interpretive skill.
Enjoying Bach in full-blown glorious detail is something both Yehuda Hanani and Kivie Cahn-Lipman have been doing as a matter of course all their lives. They revel in it.
However, what no one could possibly have anticipated — neither the Mahaiwe audience nor anyone living in the 18th-century — was the unprecedented genius of the great patriarch, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichordist and passionate conductor of Apollo's Fire, considers "the most distinctive thing about our style is that we are really focused on the concept of Affekt, the idea that the music is there to move the emotional mood of the listeners.
