Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

Isabell Faust takes a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time. This is the next instalment in a ...

Bach to the recorder: “Bach and the Concerto” doubleheader in Tel Aviv Florentin and her Mezzo colleagues are now offering a taste of some virtuosic fare composed by Bach, with the “Bach and the ...

No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

101 Mendelssohn, F.: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64: Allegro Molto Appasionato / Violin 102 Mendelssohn, F.: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64: Andante / ...

The title really ought to come in quotation marks, for of the five works that Alexei Ogrintchouk plays on his first solo recording for BIS, only one, the Adagio from the Sinfonia of the Easter ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment do that extremely well. The expertise of their techniques is unexceptionable, and even without violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, who was to have taken a leading role ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

The recorder isn’t often featured in modern orchestras, but it takes center stage on this week’s program by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. With Marion Verbruggen as soloist, the early music ...