It’s easy to giggle at musicians who specialize in outmoded instruments and performance practices. Indeed, the scene at Irvine Barclay Theatre might have come from Dr. Seuss, with one player wielding ...

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Leave it to Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to come up with a program of Baroque Christmas music that isn't "Messiah" -- or even by Handel, for that matter. And leave it to ...

The acclaimed baroque soloist’s recent concert performances have included a guest appearance with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at the National Concert Hall, for their programme of Christmas classics, and ...

Each motet ends with an untitled allegro or presto of dazzling, wantonly florid alleluias. Herrmann has a bright but brittle voice, sometimes sparse of tone. Her largo in the O qui coeli is intensely ...

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If Antonio Vivaldi had composed Orlando Furioso a couple of centuries earlier than he had, a poet named Ariosto might have gone looking for the nearest copyright lawyer to claim his own share of the ...

The word Études conjures negative associations for musicians. They’re studies. Which suggests endless practice. As New York-based Jeremy Denk says in his notes, they’re pieces which can crush a ...

"Basically, my larynx lengthened and thickened. It's nothing abnormal or underdeveloped. If that were the case, one wouldn't be able to phonate or fill a large span over an orchestra. It is a fully ...

If Antonio Vivaldi had composed Orlando Furioso a couple of centuries earlier than he had, a poet named Ariosto might have gone looking for the nearest copyright lawyer to claim his own share of the ...