Tag Archives: baroque

This fine new release includes world-premiere recordings of oratorio music from early-18th-century female Viennese composers, plus music of their contemporary Alessandro Scarlatti for context

What accounts for the persistent popularity of Vivaldi's music after all these centuries? Cecilia and Martin Gelland, together known as Duo Gelland, capture one important reason on their new recording.

Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and – Johann Bernhard Bach? Akamus opened its concert by showing us that J.S. Bach and his sons weren't the only musical Bach-family members.

The soprano and concert producer talks to us about her new recording of the rarely heard Biblical-themed oratorio by the Roman Baroque composer.

The Angel's Share live music series has been drawing adventurous listeners to the Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs for a couple of seasons now. It's no freak show.

Coruscating Latin rhythms with a four-mallet attack, folk-jazz from a guitar-ukelele-vocal duo, and baroque-jazz crossover from the late bassoonist Daniel Smith

The members of this adventurous quartet proved themselves masters of tonal variation, broad technique, and compositional creativity in a fascinating program that transformed and adapted Bach and Haydn and presented modern works that nod to the Baroque.

With polished young performers on many different instruments at her disposal, Podger presented a wide range of music that featured flutes, oboes, and bassoon as well as strings.

Viola da gamba player Vittorio Ghielmi and lutenist Luca Pianca traced the repertoire for these baroque instruments through the centures.

A significant departure for one of the founding members of Suicide.