A group of musicians want to give audiences the chance to experience what it was like to hear the rich texture of pre-1700s early music. The Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Baroque Christmas’ concert ...

Curious about the long neck sticking up from the orchestra pit during the Houston Grand Opera's performances of The Coronation of Poppea? It belongs to a theorbo, a member of the lute family. The ...

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From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating ...

At 26, Natalia Harvey is one of the younger faces playing in a middle-aged orchestra devoted to a style of music and instruments that are distinctly old. So ancient, in fact, the sound would be ...

On Sunday evening at the Academy for Performing Arts, the New Dutch Academy put on a show that featured baroque instruments ranging from the standard violin to the lesser-known lute. These different ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

In 1973, in a church in Boston, harpsichordist Martin Pearlman got together a group of eight musicians for an innovative concert: Baroque music played not on modern instruments but on the instruments ...

Upper Valley Baroque, a professional ensemble performing on period instruments and a select chorus, was founded in 2021. In addition to his position as founding UVB artistic director, Ciabatti, a ...