The 16th century English composer Thomas Morley wrote that song “should draw the hearer as if by chains of gold to the consideration of the heavenly.” If it’s the crystalline voice of English soprano ...

“Semper Dowland, semper dolens” was the motto of the composer John Dowland: “Always Dowland, always sorrowful.” The phrase was aptly quoted in the program note for Tuesday night’s Boston Early Music ...

To describe Emma Kirkby as a doyenne of the early music movement is to suggest a certain grandeur. Add to that her title as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and those unfamiliar ...