Part of the London Festival of Baroque Music, lutenist Thomas Dunford and violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte’s concert struck a balance between freewheeling music-making and precise virtuosity ...

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will present the first U.S. performances of Handel's 1742 Dublin version of ALEXANDER'S FEAST led by ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Ian Johnson BEIJING — The young musicians ended the first movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and looked expectantly at the maestro.

In 1973, American conductor, harpsichordist, and composer Martin Pearlman broke new ground by founding North America’s first permanent Baroque orchestra. His ensemble became a driving force in the ...

The early-music movement has changed not only how musicians play—tuning, timbre, technique, style—but also what they play. A couple of generations ago, programs of Baroque music were dominated by such ...

The first Earth Day took place on April 22 in 1970 – it was billed as a “national teach-in on the environment.” A year later, President Nixon celebrated Earth Day's first anniversary with a ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Father Piotr Nawrot’s face glows as he examines a carefully restored fragment of the score from a rare Baroque ...

Tom Service explores the changes in the performance of Baroque music over the last 40 years with Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington and Reinhard Goebel. Show more As part of Radio 3's Baroque ...