If I’m feeling a bit down, and in need of a quick pick-me-up, my musical drug of choice is Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F major. After just a few bars of that cheerfully busy theme, I’ll be ...

Introduce all students to the wonderful soundworld of the Baroque era, with this flexible, inclusive arrangement of Sammartini’s Recorder Concerto, created specifically for GCSE and mixed-ability ...

In its way, the latest release of Baroque concertos from virtuoso trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich is an excellent recording. A carefully selected programme of varied, original music for the trumpet ...

A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place. A set of **three ready-to-use fill-the-gaps worksheets** covering the development ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...

You might think that Beethoven would always get a bigger reaction from a symphony crowd than Philip Glass. But it was Glass, not Beethoven, whose music got the only standing ovation at Wednesday's ...

German Baroque Trumpet Concertos Works by Biber, JM Fasch, Handel, Reinhart, Schickhardt, Stölzel and Telemann Thomas Reiner (trumpet); Interpreti Veneziani Naxos 8.551419 59:49 mins The title is not ...

With Nicholas Kraemer directing from the harpsichord, Music of the Baroque gave an interesting if incomplete performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at Harris Theater on Monday ...

These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...

Baroque music has an unusual place in our culture. It is ubiquitous, and popular, on the radio, especially at drive time. Recordings of it are released in large numbers. Everyone, it seems, has a ...