The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...

Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra New Prague Collegium Marek Zvolánek, Trumpet Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Composer Drahomíra Pelantová, Harpsichord Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Johann) Michael ...

Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock’s Players in bright arrangements of Baroque concertos, in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. The program ...

The 35th annual Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, opened Sunday afternoon at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach with the kind of program that others would do well to imitate. Though ...

Music director Martin Haselbock promised a one-evening musical tour all around the Baroque era, and that’s pretty much what Musica Angelica offered Saturday night at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall.

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

GRAMMY-nominated Countertenor Reginald Mobley, who sang at the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023, interprets Vivaldi's rendition of the 13th century poem Stabat Mater, a meditation on sorrow, ...

It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...

Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...