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These twelve orchestral concerti grossi by Francesco Geminiani are based on the Op.5 sonatas for solo violin by his teacher, Archangelo Co...

At the end of the seventeenth century one of Italy’s greatest exports was the virtuoso violinist. Italy was the cradle of many of the advan...

CD liner note Peter Holman writes: There were two main types of song in Elizabethan England. The older of the two, represented on this rec...

In 1676 Heinrich Biber wrote of his ‘faith in stringed instruments (fidem in fidibus)’, demonstrating his love of rhetoric, probably imbued ...

The practice of re-enacting the events that led to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ has two connected origins both dating back at...

‘Historical’ has almost become a dirty word — at least as far as music is concerned. Will it, one wonders, go the same way down the semant...

I magineu el concert per a violí de Beethoven tocat en un violí barroc amb un arc barroc. El 1806, quan aquest va ser compost, ja s'es...