Reviews
- Music of the Baroque's 'Israel in Egypt'
- April 2013, Chicago Tribune
- “Music director Jane Glover's journey through the big 18th century choral masterpieces with her Music of the Baroque chorus and orchestra took her to Handel's biblical oratorio "Israel in Egypt," in a stylish and satisfying performance heard Sunday evening at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.”
- Music of the Baroque triumphs in Handel's 'Israel in Egypt'
- April 2013, Chicago Sun-Times
- “Major works by Mozart and Haydn have marked Jane Glover’s 10th season as music director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. But it would be hard to find a better demonstration of the high level that this 42-year-old local institution has achieved under Glover and chorus director William Jon Gray, now in his third season, than the brilliant presentation Monday of Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” at the Harris Theater..”
- Glover, MOB bring Biblical fervor to "Israel in Egypt"
- April 2013, Chicago Classical Review
- “…
Glover and the Music of the Baroque orchestra and chorus succeeded brilliantly in putting this inspired score across. Glover consistently illuminated Handel’s imaginative musical onomatopoeia as with the whirling violin passages depicting the flies, the pizzicato for rain, and uninhibited timpani and trumpets for a driving hailstorm.”
- Winning Haydn in plain sight with Kraemer, Music of the Baroque
- February 2013, Chicago Classical Review
- “…how many conductors can make you smile and almost laugh out loud at a particularly witty phrase or unexpected harmonic turn? MOB’s principal guest conductor—in fact, the ensemble’s only guest conductor—is masterful in this repertoire, as shown once again in Friday’s pairing of early and late Haydn symphonies…”
- Jane Glover takes stock of her fruitful decade with Music of the Baroque
- January 2013, Chicago Tribune
- “…the stylistic awareness, interpretive depth and sheer ebullience of outlook Glover has brought to MOB's core Baroque and Classical orchestral and choral repertory in the course of her ten years here have made it one of the most admired groups of its type in the nation.”
- Music of the Baroque serves up a generous and wide-ranging Bach
Christmas
program
- December 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “Choral director William Jon Gray curated a generous program of works of almost dizzying variety Thursday night at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest.”
- Music of the Baroque presents a varied and engaging Bach program
- November 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “Music of the Baroque delivered a thrilling, up-tempo take on this resplendent music…”
- Music of the Baroque’s Nicholas Kraemer never tires of Bach
- November 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “There are all of sorts of treasures waiting to be done by this group…there's no better instrument for that in Chicago…”
- Glover, Music of the Baroque take flight in Haydn mass
- October 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “Glover showed she has the full measure of this work, drawing a vital, boldly projected and richly expressive…One could hardly imagine a more rousing sendoff to Glover’s tenth anniversary season.”
- Glover continues to find warmth and enjoyment in her tenth anniversary season
- October 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “Since Glover’s arrival, there’s an electricity in the air at MOB performances, which is not always the case at classical concerts.”
- Music of the Baroque’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso…a notable highlight of Chicago’s 2011–12 musical season
- March 2012, Opera News
- “You won’t hear more finely tuned, perfectly blended choral singing anywhere in Chicago—or anywhere else, I daresay.”
- Music of the Baroque soars with Handel rarity
- March 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “Glover was at her finest, setting brisk and buoyant tempos…”
- Music of the Baroque’s ‘tour’ full of delightful variety
- February 2012, Chicago Tribune
- “Four countries in less than two hours…”
- Kraemer, Music of the Baroque serve up a delightful double-shot of Haydn
- January 2012, Chicago Classical Review
- “If you can’t enjoy Haydn, then it’s quite likely that you have no soul…”
- Music of the Baroque breathes new life into holiday program
- December 2011, Chicago Classical Review
- “Gray is taking these concerts very seriously, and not simply as routine holiday fare…”
- Kraemer, Music of the Baroque bring stylish vivacity to populist Bach
- November 2011, Chicago Classical Review
- “It was refined and flowing, effectively scraping off accumulated Victorian sentimentality…”
