This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more. I put ‘Danish’ in inverted commas because none of these ...

The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra presents its final Valley Vivaldi concert of the season Sunday at Wesley Church in Bethlehem. Joining the ensemble, which includes principal instrumentalists of the ...

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announces the November 17 release of its latest recording Concertos for Orchestra, the second under Music Director Louis Langrée. The recording features the ...

The feisty red-headed priest, Antonio Vivaldi, really did write some 500 concertos. Six of them were for recorder. We take you to Toronto where Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is in concert with recorder ...

Piers Adams (recorder), Musica da Camera/Robert King, Howard Beach(keyboards), David Watkin (cello)Red Priest Recordings RP 008 *** This set brings together recordings made by Piers Adams in 1988 and ...

Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

IF your only experience of the recorder is that of high-pitched shriekings in the school music room, then I'd advise you to listen to this recording and think what could have happened if you'd ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.