Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The baroque period in music stretches from the invention of opera around 1600 to the death of J.S. Bach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mexico had a vibrant musical scene during the Baroque era. Some composers were born in what was then known as “New Spain,” while others came from Europe and beyond to pursue their craft. You’ll hear ...

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 ...

Despite their name – borrowed from one of the most popular musical forms of the Spanish and Latin American baroque – Ensemble Villancico is a Swedish group, established to perform the early music of ...

Chicago’s Music of the Baroque has announced its 2021-22 season, the 51st for the ensemble, including several programs that were originally intended to be part of the group’s 50th anniversary, altered ...