Touring solo artists come to Western Pennsylvania almost every week of the concert season. Touring orchestras, by contrast, are a real rarity. Yes, Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic played ...

Back in 2002, conductor Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra hit the highway for their first extended U.S. tour — and they packed more than just their instruments. Their bus was stocked with ...

WORCESTER — Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" — four violin concertos depicting the different seasons of the year beginning with spring and ending with winter — was a revolutionary work when it was ...

Hidden Virtuosas” premieres Baroque music by the most downtrodden women of Venice, not heard in three centuries.

Venice is a city particularly associated with the mandolin, an instrument often accompanying nocturnal serenades and ...

In introductory remarks to the final concert of Baroque Band’s season Friday night, concertmaster-guest conductor Joan Plana told the audience at Augustana Lutheran Church of the “huge amount of risks ...

The 16-piece Venice Baroque Orchestra performed Feb. 26 at Tulane University. (Venice Baroque Orchestra) Baroque music too often brings up a certain pedantic mindset that can, even under otherwise ...

Superstars Les Arts Florissants is joined by fast-rising violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte in “Vivaldi's Four Seasons at ...

Violinist Elizabeth Field operates in two musical worlds, the modern and the baroque. Her modern world encompasses her concertmaster position with the Bethlehem Bach Choir and as guest artist with the ...