In ‘The Eloquent Oboe’, Tekla Cunningham and colleagues draw out the quiet drama in solo Bach cantatas – where the oboe’s ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner undertook the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 amid a blaze of publicity. The project to perform and record every single extant Bach cantata within one year, each on its ...

Suzuki and his crew always looked cool but, excitingly, didn’t sound it. Here was choral and instrumental Bach performed not just with meticulous professionalism but a dash and verve that filled each ...

Steampunk inspired? Yes please. Ars Nova’s next adventure blends victorian era composers and contemporary song. Eric Whitacre and Philip Glass meet Hubert Parry and Robert Lucas Pearsall. And if you ...

PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth Pro Musica, under the artistic direction of Priscilla Stevens French, will conclude the group’s 40th anniversary season by performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. PPM will be ...

In its fourth concert of the 2025/26 season, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra dedicates itself to sacred music for Lent - with a mass by Johann Sebastian Bach and expressive cantatas by Georg Philipp ...

Each era of music caters to a sensibility. A spirit instructs the age. Some music from the Middle Ages, such as the ars subtilior or “subtler art,” is full of games and convoluted designs, intended ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. J.S. Bach may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking about romance, but Bach Ties ...

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GREAT BARRINGTON — Christine Gevert knows that in 2024, one might hesitate before going to a concert of baroque Christmas music. “There are so many stereotypes that you might have about, ‘I don’t like ...

Alexander Weimann conducts the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Vancouver Chamber Choir in a performance of Handel's Messiah in 2023. Photo by Jess MacAleese. This article is part of a Tyee Presents ...