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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 ArticleBaroque Collection
Elliott Forrest co-hosts with David Finckel performances from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This week features Baroque music.Program playlist:Biber: Battalia for Strings and Continuo—...
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 ArticleChamber Music Society Plays Bach and Telemann
Monday at 10 pm, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents an all-Baroque program with the three even-numbered Brandenburg Concetos by J.S. Bach, along with Telemann's Concerto in D major...
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...
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