Tag Archives: baroque music

Cantata Profana explores via collage the story of a rape that, according to legend, triggered the fall of the monarchy in ancient Rome.

The early music group illuminated the consonances between jazz and baroque music and had a good deal of fun doing it.

The concert featured a closetful of varied recorders, most copied from original instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.

Capturing the imagination is a prominent factor of Wytold's music. His recording has gorgeous soundscapes.

With polished young performers on many different instruments at her disposal, Podger presented a wide range of music that featured flutes, oboes, and bassoon as well as strings.

Five superb musicians who play the treble, tenor, and bass members of the viola da gamba (or viol) family gave us baroque music from France, including some unexpected adaptations and arrangements.

Two recent albums that do new things with very old music.

When the darkness works, it really works.

Early music fans are used to hearing sacred texts set to music, and the religion is, of course, Christianity. Except when it isn't.