Its delicate sound is a good match for Western baroque string instruments, Matthews believes, giving the music “layers of transparency.” Like much of baroque music, the new Koushkani piece has ...

Orchestras specialising in Baroque music tend to be much smaller and more focused on string instruments. In fact, pre-1700s, the leader of the first violin section led the whole orchestra, instead of ...

Camerata Chamber Orchestra is open to all CWRU students, faculty, and community members by audition who play string instruments and desire to perform ... a variety of genres that include pieces from ...

Chatham Baroque has revealed the Chatham Baroque ... written for a lush array of bowed string instruments. This music is rich with ingenious invention, counterpoint, and mellifluous harmony." ...

Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th - 19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to the NSO. The musicians playing them had no idea that they came from their ...

Here are the weird and absurd stories behind five instruments that can be heard on stages across Toronto.

Upper Valley Baroque, a professional ensemble performing on period instruments and a select chorus ... played between the legs), cello, violone (bass-like string instrument) and harpsichord. “This is ...

Doheny in L.A.’s University Park neighborhood — the New Hollywood String Quartet ... Tesserae Baroque presented a program amenable to 17th century period instruments, a booming modern baritone ...

The Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Baroque Christmas’ concert features early instruments like the theorbo and the baroque guitar, which deliver a darker, "earthier" sound compared to popular ...

the craft of building string instruments reached a state of near-perfection in a humble workshop in Cremona, Italy. The craftsman’s name is still known around the world more than 300 years later ...