Classical fans with a special penchant for music of the past rejoice when midsummer brings Early Music Vancouver’s much-loved, long-running annual festival, offering dedicated listeners a rich sampler ...

Once upon a time, pioneers of historically informed performance made all sorts of proclamations about the “rightness” of their mission. In recent years those were overtaken by a stronger sort of ...

This weekend, violinist Leonidas Kavakos returns to the Houston to perform with and conduct the Houston Symphony. First, he takes the lead with the Violin Concerto in A minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Handel’s “Messiah” has become perhaps the world’s most universal Christmas musical tradition. Here, annual performances attract crowds annually in Barre, Montpelier and Rutland. And this year promises ...

The Handel and Haydn Society will celebrate one of the most dynamic periods in the history of music with Mozart, CPE Bach, and Friends. H+H Associate Conductor Ian Watson will direct the streaming ...

To study whether Johan Sebastian Bach music has a lowering effect on resting energy expenditure (REE) similar to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music. Three REE measurements were performed in each of ...

Christine Fairfield (l.), soprano; and Carrie Stevens, alto, sing a duet with organ chorale during the Bach Cantata 172 at the Leipzig service. Cellist, Paige Riggs, and bass player, Peter Spaar, are ...

In the spirit of mixing and matching music on MP3 players, Performance Today mixes a set of four short pieces, back to back, by Benjamin Britten (the "Aria Italiana" from Variations of a Theme by ...

Through Dec. 23. The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory, and Performance. Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library. For anyone intrigued by 250 year-old ...

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