What people are saying about the ABO
“…For this listener the experience was of sitting in on a roomful of smart people, hearing one conversation here, then another there, but all of them within a single framework.”
- Earrelevant April 2024 - Concerti grossi
“the show zipped along with youthful vigor — fresh, energetic and fun.”
“The ensemble’s casual virtuosity and tight rhythmic sense gave the music a springy, dance-like physicality. Across the performance, everything felt organic and flowing.”
- Music, dance tell doomed love story in Atlanta Baroque's “Dido & Aeneas”
ARTS ATL
What you experience with early instruments is a little like going to an ethnic restaurant,” says Brent Wissick, who has played viola da gamba, an early form of the cello, with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra for 14 years. “It’s food you know, but it’s an exciting new way of preparing and presenting it. It’s familiar, but completely new.”
- Brent Wissick, ABO musician
There’s something that’s more like popular music, folk or jazz, that you can hear sometimes in historical performance practice that you don’t hear so much in classical music.”
Nell Snaidas, ABO guest artist
