What does a Bach suite have in common with an old-time fiddle hoedown? Maybe more than you think — at least that's the premise of the Baroque Fiddling Project, which culminates Tuesday with a concert ...

“Music should jump right off the stage! It is a conversation that engages emotion, ” says violin virtuoso, Monica Huggett. Huggett is coming to Boise to make Baroque music jump into the hearts of ...

It’s not easy to sustain a music festival, especially one devoted to classical music from the Baroque period (music composed ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This violin was made in Mirecourt, ...

Something to get very excited about. Described as 'One of the best baroque ensembles playing alongside one of the best violinists of baroque on one of the very best violins', this gala performance ...

The Christmas concert season in New Orleans comes to a close this evening in the Ursuline Convent’s St. Mary’s Church in the French Quarter, when Lyrica Baroque, a five-member chamber music group, ...

The Kensington Baroque Chamber Players will perform 17th and 18th century music at the Rancho Bernardo Library, with some musicians using instruments hundreds of years old. The free, hour-long concert ...

Known as the "red priest" because of his hair color and his membership in the clergy, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. He wrote ...

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.

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 ...