To say that Andrew Manze is a delightful violinist should, you would think, be qualification enough. Certainly anyone who enjoys witnessing expert violin playing would have been royally entertained at ...

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Before Perlman, Mutter and Mullova were Grumiaux, Heifetz and Stern. Preceding them were Berwald, Spohr and Paganini, and prior to them were Benda, Cannabich and Stamitz. Predating those composers ...

Trust Red Dot Baroque (RDB), Singapore’s only dedicated period instrument ensemble, to continue illuminating listeners about Baroque music. Beyond the familiar J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel and ...

Ask anyone to name a single Baroque composer, and it’ll probably be the prolific Johann Sebastian Bach: he of “Brandenburg Concertos,” cello suites, sonatas, partitas, “Goldberg Variations,” and ...

Violinist Andrew Manze and harpsichordist Richard Egarr take a sonata by Arcangelo Corelli into new territory — at least for modern audiences. Manze improvises within Corelli's score, as he believes ...

Where does the word ‘sonata’ come from, and what does it mean? We take a deep dive to explore its meaning and evolution. However, some Baroque sonatas in were written for solo instruments without it, ...

The church was cool so, before playing Bach, Maya Homburger warmed her instrument, an Italian baroque violin made in 1740 and in its original baroque condition, by playing a short three movement ...

Improvisation is a muscle we’ve all had to flex briskly since the beginning of the pandemic, but it’s something German violinist Jonas Zschenderlein has been doing since he was a teenager. The ...