Revered baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire have centered their April program around the work of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The NYS Baroque is an ensemble obsessed with authenticity. Their repertoire of European music is drawn from the Baroque era ...
Naomi: Very dapper Ludwig! Ludwig: (gasp) What ist this !!! Naomi: This is an organ, a popular instrument of the Baroque period. It’s a little bit like woodwind or brass instruments, because it ...
The harpsichord made a short, staccato sound as the strings were plucked inside the instrument. If a Baroque composer wanted a longer sound on the harpsichord, he would have had to add ornaments ...
The album also features Stepner playing two other spectacular baroque instruments — a 1641 violin made by Nicolo Amati owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a 1693 violin made by Antonio ...
In 1973, in a church in Boston, harpsichordist Martin Pearlman got together a group of eight musicians for an innovative concert: Baroque music played not on modern instruments but on the ...
For the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra ... Dale Adelmann. “All of the instruments that will be used are either original from the 17th or 18th centuries or they’re exact copies.” ...
“This particular instrument, which belongs to Rice University ... bows that are created for long legato lines. Instead, a Baroque bow is all about rhetoric and about inflecting lines with ...
The idea of performing brand-new compositions on the instruments of the baroque era—as the Pacific Baroque Orchestra will do during this year’s edition of the annual Sonic Boom festival ...