Others from earlier times such as crumhorns, cornetti and shawms disappeared from most stages for centuries.In one corner of ...

The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognizable, even for those who've never set foot in a concert hall. Many ...

For the holiday season, Jeanette Sorrel conducts the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, in a performance of Part III of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Baroque trumpets and timpani open the ...

Bauguess today is one of a handful of American trumpeters in demand on period instruments. "Last year, I played 17 'Messiahs' in three different time zones," he says.

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S.. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare ...

Rare instruments dating back to the Baroque era have been inherited by the Manoel Theatre . Giulia Magri Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 13:14 Last update: about 3 years ago.

The sound of the harpsichord – that genteel instrument that conjures up images of the powdered wigs and embroidered waistcoats of the Baroque era – hooked Karen Flint while studying organ at ...

In the 1950s, when musician Gustav Leonhardt and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt began advocating period-instrument performances of Baroque composers, they were seen as a rather kooky musical ...