The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...
From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...
It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...
Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock’s Players in bright arrangements of Baroque concertos, in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. The program ...
The trumpet was the star instrument of the baroque period, but it fell out of favor not long after. “There are no trumpet concertos by Beethoven or Brahms,” trumpeter Steve Charpie said in a recent ...
GRAMMY-nominated Countertenor Reginald Mobley, who sang at the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023, interprets Vivaldi's rendition of the 13th century poem Stabat Mater, a meditation on sorrow, ...
Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...
Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...
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