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 ...

STOCKBRIDGE -- Conductor David Alan Miller's charge to the three student composers was: Think baroque, write modern. The three resulting concertos will receive premiere performances when Miller brings ...

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 ...

It's a truly eclectic feast on Saturday Baroque this week... Handel's Harp Concerto was originally premiered at the King's Theatre in London in 1736. Published as an organ concerto, the piece's ...

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 ...

There’s a snarky old saw that Antonio Vivaldi didn’t really write 500 concertos, but wrote the same concerto 500 times. Of course, you only need to hear the composer’s varied “Four Seasons” — a ...

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 ...

Looking for some Vivaldi CDs? Try Amazon.com and click on the Baroque composer’s name. You will be confronted with 2,143 releases. Narrow your search to “The Four Seasons,” and the choices are still ...

Amid a holiday season dominated by umpteen performances of "Messiah" and "The Nutcracker," plus too many examples of conductors leading accounts of Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" while doing ...