Members of Early Music Princeton (EMP), directed by harpsichordist Wendy Young, perform vocal and instrumental repertoire spanning the centuries from Medieval and Renaissance to High Baroque, with a ...

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Arch-authenticist Trevor Pinnock on concert grand, modern virtuoso Maxim Vengerov on baroque violin: this wasn't some parallel musical universe, but half of the historical cross-dressings of this ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...

“Music should jump right off the stage! It is a conversation that engages emotion, ” says violin virtuoso, Monica Huggett. Huggett is coming to Boise to make Baroque music jump into the hearts of ...

Aston Magna returns to Great Barrington with four concerts featuring Bach, Vivaldi and lesser-known Baroque composers, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This violin was made in Mirecourt, ...

The harpsichord was widely used during the Renaissance and Baroque music eras. In the late 18th century the harpsichord was supplanted by the fortepiano and almost disappeared from view after the ...