Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The program opens with Concerto in A Major for Harpsichord and Strings by ...
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 ...
Violinist and PBO artistic director Monica Huggett was one of Saturday's headliners. ( Basil Childers) For his Lutheran piety and contrapuntal rigor, Johann Sebastian Bach is typically upheld as an ...
“The concertmistress will play the part on a Baroque violin capable of the part.” The Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047, calls for solo trumpet, recorder, oboe and violin, plus strings and continuo.
Here is an ultra-special disc. Sometimes an outstanding performance of a masterwork suggests a reassessment of the work is called for. This performance of Schumann's underrated and, indeed, sometimes ...
Experience Rachel Podger's unique brand of Baroque music as she tackles Bach's Double and Triple violin concertos with the Brecon Baroque ensemble. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 6 May 2013. An ...
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 ...
Yet another Vivaldi disc, this time containing five previously unrecorded violin concertos from his gawp-inducing output of 240 works in the genre. Vivaldi's detractors argue that his music sounds ...
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 ...
Are we in a golden age of violinists? It looks like it. That astonishing young players keep coming up the ranks and capturing the public’s imagination is nothing new. But what really seems to mark our ...
It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...