From 21 to 27 October 2019, join ABC Classic for a festival of the Baroque — celebrating some of the most glorious music ever written, showcasing the musicians bringing it to life, and exploring the ...

Meniker says he was looking to give the audiences oxymoronic value for money when he got down to piecing the program together. The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra has been doing sterling work in its ...

Benedetti and a roster of international Baroque specialists will host her three-week Baroque Virtual Sessions from 5 to 25 July – with a final celebratory concert on Sunday 1 August. Taking place ...

Here's another binary opposition to throw into your binary-opposition machine. Late-19th/early-20th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin described two opposing styles: the Classic and the ...

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 ...

Generally speaking, the Baroque period is when the orchestra was born, opera kicked off in a big way and the concerto gave soloists the chance to properly show off. From the period's beginnings in the ...

The latest art exhibition "Rome 17th Century: Towards Baroque" is the second exhibition of a five-year cooperation project between Chinese and Italian museums, and opened to the public at the National ...

The Baroque Innovations tour, led by NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen is a rare opportunity to experience Biber at his best. Picture supplied Experience the magic of Baroque music in Gisborne as ...

For a composer who died at age 26, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) wrote an awful lot of music. At least, there’s an awful lot of music attributed to Pergolesi. Most of it wasn’t by him at all ...

When most people think of Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis, the first thing that comes to mind is jazz — and rightly so. After all, he shares his birthplace with jazz ...

The Orangery was built using the floor plan of Borromini’s famous Baroque church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome. The circular shapes and other geometric shapes were used to design this ...

Hear baroque classics by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Albinoni at the St John’s Lutheran Church of Orange Baroque Music Fest, which continues this weekend. The Jubilate Choir and Orchestra will perform ...