Baroque music has an unusual place in our culture. It is ubiquitous, and popular, on the radio, especially at drive time. Recordings of it are released in large numbers. Everyone, it seems, has a ...

These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...

For the 2022-23 season, Upper Valley Baroque, a professional instrumental and choral ensemble, is taking “A Journey through Italian Baroque.” After choral music in the fall, the chamber orchestra is ...

It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...

American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that ...

Six incredible works of art, and six reasons they changed everything. In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach carefully packaged together six of his finest concertos and sent them to a Christian Ludwig, ...

Boston Baroque is ecstatic to release a live concert recording of the Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 1 by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The recording features GRAMMY-nominated ...

You might think that Beethoven would always get a bigger reaction from a symphony crowd than Philip Glass. But it was Glass, not Beethoven, whose music got the only standing ovation at Wednesday's ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --Move over dueling banjos and pianos – dueling baroque concertos are taking center stage in early August. Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra is presenting “Fencing Match,” the premiere ...