It’s the first of April and we are welcoming a special guest (believe us: you will know him when you hear him). He introduces us to a fascinating mix of early music and Renaissance era instruments and ...
La Follia presents an intimate concert of chamber music on classical period instruments by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Featured is Beethoven’s famous piano quartet, Op. 16. Anton Nel will play ...
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 ...
Just when you thought every angle for a music festival had been exhausted, cellist Tanya Tomkins and fortepianist Eric Zivian came up with a new one. Valley of the Moon Music Festival, which begins ...
Period-instrument performance has been around for decades, but has really exploded in the last 15-20 years. A few groups popped up as early as the 50's and 60's, but the 70's is when it began to ...
“DIDO’S GHOST”, a new opera which had its premiere this month at the Barbican Centre in London, is a beguiling mix of old and new. Errollyn Wallen, a Belize-born British composer, and Wesley Stace, a ...
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor who championed period instruments and called vibrato a ‘modern drug’
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Norrington in 1996 - Ken Hively Sir Roger Norrington, who has died aged 91, was a leading figure in the period-instrument ...
From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating ...
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