31.10.2026

The album by the Boston Early Music Festival & Chamber Ensembles featuring works by Georg Philipp Telemann, including the cantata “Ino,” wins the Grammy 2026 in the category Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! https://www.grammy.com/news/2026-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list 

"This is the perfect Telemann recording, which anyone involved in this repertoire should listen to. Highly recommended!" (Klassik heute)

"Gramophone Editor's Choice: January 2025 | The best new classical recordings"

"Amanda Forsythe and the orchestra of the Boston Earlyy Music Festival conjure exceptional stylish elegance and theatrical vitality in the flowing sequence of orchestrally accompanied recitatives, ariosos, dances and arias."

Amanda Forsythe, Robert Mealy, Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

Label: CPO

The CD has been recorded in the Sendesaal Bremen.

Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer : Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann

15.08.2026

18 concerts at 9 venues across 3 time slots in a single evening—that guarantees variety at the popular festival opener in Bremen around the market square! In a special collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Radio Bremen’s “Bremen Zwei” broadcast an exclusive live broadcast from 7:05 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Karola Parry served as sound engineer for four of these concerts in the broadcast trucks of Radio Bremen. 

The Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles—conducted by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs—performed works by Claudio Monteverdi at the Unser Lieben Frauen Church: *Lamento d’Arianna*, *Zefiro torna*, *Lamento della Ninfa*, and other scherzi and madrigals.

Violinist Alena Baeva, pianist Vadym Kholodenko, and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov performed Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major in the upper hall of City Hall.

Photo: Bremen Market Square © Nikolai Wolff
BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles © Kathy Wittman
Photo: Vadym Kholodenko © Jean-Baptiste-Millot – Alena Baeva © Marco Borggreve – Kyril Zlotnikov © Daniel Wetzel