Juilliard415
The Juilliard School, the music and performance arts conservatory in New York City, can trace its history back over a century. But this academic year has been the first in which Juilliard offered a...
View ArticleWQXR Hosts Share their Fall Picks
As WQXR previews the fall season, our hosts-about-town reveal some of what they're looking forward to.David GarlandCarnegie Hall's Baroque Unlimited series brings several great early music ensembles to...
View ArticleAn Early Music and Baroque Christmas
Host David Garland presents an hour of Christmas and wintertime music from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras.Program details:Anonymous: Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant - Apollo's Fire - Noels &...
View ArticleGo for Baroque
What is Baroque music and who wrote it? Find out from Suzanne Bona, host of the national public radio program Sunday Baroque, when she visits Classics for Kids this week.Music used within the...
View Article#3453: New Sound of Early Music
Take a new look at early music on this New Sounds program. Listen to selections from the Luce Trio, involving Indian Shruti box, saxophone, electric guitar and bass. Their album is based based on...
View ArticleSeattle Baroque Soloists
The Seattle Baroque Soloists give an intimate tour of 17th century Venice and Rome, from Frescobaldi to Zipoli, culminating in two masterworks from Antonio Vivaldi’s Opus 1 sonatas. Also known the “Red...
View Article'The Only Crayfish in My Brook'
On this week's Pipedreams, host Michael Barone makes a centenary salute to Johann Sebastian Bach's favorite and most prolific student, Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780).Program details (All by...
View ArticleGig Alert: New Opera NYC
ARTIST: Julia LimaDOWNLOAD: "Da tempeste il legno inferno" SHOW: Tuesday at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center ($21 - $59.99)Meet Armida: She’s beautiful. She’s dangerous. And, bonus: she can do...
View ArticleFrench Baroque Choral Opulence
This week’s episode presents the choral sounds of the French baroque. We hear some of the best music from the 1600s and early 1700s and the artists who bring it to life for us today. The program is...
View ArticleTour Baroque Italy with Maurice Steger
Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger gives a tour of Italy through its Baroque music, from Venice in the north down to Naples in the south.Steger has become one of the leading interpreters of Baroque music...
View Article#3453: New Sound of Early Music
Take a new look at early music on this New Sounds program. Listen to selections from the Luce Trio, involving Indian Shruti box, saxophone, electric guitar and bass. Their album is based based on...
View ArticleJohn Holloway, Jane Gower and Lars Ulrik Mortensen play Baroque Music
The trio of John Holloway, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Jane Gower perform historical music with a fresh spontaneity while exploring composers such as Castello, Schmelzer, Rossi and Fontana. While many...
View ArticleBritish Baroque Band Florilegium Plays Bach and Telemann
The British period instrument ensemble Florilegium returns to The Frick Collection this week to perform chamber music from the early 1700s. The program begins with an organ trio by Johann Sebastian...
View Article#3453: New Sound of Early Music
Take a new look at early music on this New Sounds program. Listen to selections from the Luce Trio, involving Indian Shruti box, saxophone, electric guitar and bass. Their album is based based on...
View ArticleBach Collegium Japan Live from Carnegie Hall
Members of the Bach Collegium Japan performed a program of Baroque music by Bach, Vivaldi and Handel at Carnegie Hall on Friday, November 6. WQXR morning host Jeff Spurgeon and John Hockenberry from...
View ArticleNikolaus Harnoncourt, Champion of Early Music, Dies at 86
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whose career first focused on a search for authenticity in Baroque and other old music and later expanded into masterful interpretations across...
View ArticlePallade Musica Performs Lully and Telemann
Monday at 10 pm the Montreal early music ensemble Pallade Musica kicks off this season of Concerts from The Frick Collection with a program of French Baroque selections. These works by Lully, Telemann...
View ArticleListen: Anne Sofie von Otter Spans Centuries of Songs
In addition to performing at the world's leading opera houses and concert halls, Swedish Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter has also recorded an album of Swedish folk songs, worked with renowned jazz...
View ArticleQuiz: Which Classical Music Era Are You?
Are you a Romantic like Brahms, a Minimalist like Philip Glass, or perhaps you're Baroque like Bach —with 20 children, how could he help it? Take our quiz to find out which era suits you best.Quiz by...
View ArticleListen: Flanders Recorder Quartet Explores Complexities of the Instrument
Founded in 1987, the Flanders Recorder Quartet returned to the Frick Collection last winter, the first time in more than a decade, to present an evening of Renaissance and Baroque music. The musicians...
View ArticleListen: Harpsichordist Andreas Staier Mines Melancholy
When the harpsichordist Andreas Staier started putting together a recital featuring his favorite 17th-century works for the instrument, he discovered that they all shared a theme of melancholy. That...
View ArticleHere's Why the Concertmaster Is Always a Violinist
Ah, the concertmaster. That confident violinist who strides across the stage after everyone else, lifts her bow, waits for an oboe to sound ‘A’ and tunes the orchestra. When the conductor strides out,...
View ArticleGoing For Baroque
Baroque music is associated with the 17th and 18th centuries and is one of the most popular styles of classical music. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel — all gems of the Baroque. But the Baroque coincided with...
View ArticlePhantasm Plays Several Generations of British Composers
At 10 pm on Monday, tune in to hear Phantasm, an early music group founded in London more than 20 years ago by an American cellist with British and Finnish viol players.The viol, or viola da gamba, is...
View ArticleCuarteto Casals Play Mozart, Brahms and Bartok
Cuarteto Casals is a Spanish string quartet that formed 20 years ago while they were students at conservatory. The quartet have since won awards all across Europe. Next season, Cuarteto Casals begin a...
View Article#4037, With Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys)
Founded and led by violinist Bjarte Eike, the Norwegian group Barokksolisten, takes a dim view of putting music into genre boxes. But, for their latest project, The Alehouse Sessions, their master plan...
View ArticleBjarte Eike & Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys) Tear It Up In-Studio
The Norwegian band called Barokksolistene is out to give classical music a bad name. They’re trying to drag classical music – and especially Baroque music – down to the level of folk musicians fiddling...
View ArticleGig Alert: Quicksilver at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall
Quicksilver at Carnegie's Weill Recital HallTickets: $61, 7:30 PM We know the city of Venice as one of the centers of Italian cultural life – the city of canals and gondolas and this composer, Vivaldi....
View ArticleApollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Performs Telemann and Vivaldi
This Thursday, members of the early music ensemble Apollo’s Fire stopped by our studio for an intimate performance, just a few hours before their sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. They performed...
View Article#4037, With Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys)
Founded and led by violinist Bjarte Eike, the Norwegian group Barokksolisten, takes a dim view of putting music into genre boxes. But, for their latest project, The Alehouse Sessions, their master plan...
View ArticleMasters of the Baroque: Bach and Scarlatti, Part 1
Host David Dubal begins a new series on two keyboard masters born in 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. These two composers were the titans of the late Baroque period, and their work...
View ArticleMasters of the Baroque: Bach and Scarlatti, Part 2
Tonight on Reflections from the Keyboard features more of the two giants of the late Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. Featured on this program are pianists Cristiana Pegoraro,...
View ArticleMasters of the Baroque: Bach and Scarlatti, Part 3
Tonight on Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal presents a baroque feast of Bach and Scarlatti performances. Performers on tonight's program include such masters as Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt,...
View Article7 Wild Recorder Pieces That Will Have You Wishing You Never Gave Up The...
Say the word “recorder” and memories of oh-so-adorable—but also oh-so-squeaky and oh-so-atonal (and not the good kind)—concerts come rushing back to you. Elementary school recorder classes are a rite...
View Article#4037, With Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys)
Founded and led by violinist Bjarte Eike, the Norwegian group Barokksolisten, takes a dim view of putting music into genre boxes. But, for their latest project, The Alehouse Sessions, their master plan...
View ArticleBeyond Bach and Vivaldi: Augusta McKay Lodge Serves Up A Little Something...
Classical music is, whether you like it or not, often used as a tool by many a listener. It’s made apparent by playlists and compilations like “relaxing classical” or “dinnertime classical.” But here’s...
View ArticleBjarte Eike & Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys) Tear It Up In-Studio...
The Norwegian band called Barokksolistene is out to give classical music a bad name. They’re trying to drag classical music – and especially Baroque music – down to the level of folk musicians fiddling...
View ArticleRussia stages elections in Ukraine
Today marks the final day of voting in the so-called referendums taking place in parts of Ukraine that are occupied by Russian forces. These votes are taking place under military occupation — and...
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Have You Heard | "Baroque" by Miloš
Dear Listener,Have You Heard– that guitar star Miloš has just released Baroque, his debut album for Sony Classical?Ahead of a November Carnegie Hall recital, and a spring 2024 tour with Les Violons Du...
View ArticleVíkingur Ólafsson on the Unpredictable Futurism of Rameau
“If you go deeply enough into music, with enough freedom and discipline, you will come to something that's entirely new.”All classical musicians are devoted to the art of reinterpretation — of trying...
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