Everybody loves the flute. Along with the drum, it's among the oldest of musical instruments, going back 35,000 to 40,000 years. In those days, they made flutes from bear bones, mammoth tusks and ...

You may have played one (badly) in primary school... But the recorder is actually one of the most agile and sophisticated instruments of the baroque period. With its sweet, soothing, woody tone, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Led by artistic director Paul Dyer, Baroque Masters brings together works from Handel, Bach, Pachelbel and Vivaldi across a ...

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 ...

There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more. I put ‘Danish’ in inverted commas because none of these ...

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are six masterpieces of intricacy and lightness that require virtuostic playing and differ tremendously in their scoring. This weekend, the Meyerson’s voluminous hall will ...

In 1721 Bach dedicated a set of six remarkable concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg. On Sunday November 14th, the Irish Baroque Orchestra (IBO) celebrates that 300th anniversary and ...