There lived a composer in the 18th century who was more greatly revered than Bach in his time, but of whom posterity makes very little mention: Georg Philipp Telemann. Perhaps he was ignored because ...

The Bach Collegium San Diego launched its 21st season Friday evening. San Diego has been the beneficiary of Ruben Valenzuela’s scholarship and vision since he started his ensemble in 2003, and they ...

Today, J.S. Bach is regarded as the greatest German Baroque composer, but in the 18th century, Telemann was the more celebrated superstar, commanding a prestigious post as cantor of the city of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Violinist Cindy Wu is a member of the ensemble that will perform Thursday at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. The Chamber Music Society of ...

Apollo's Fire's new managing director, Hugh Carslaw, in a brief introduction before the "Bach in the Countryside" concert on June 12, said that the two performances taking place June 11 and 12 marked ...

The ensemble called Red Priest can't help themselves. The only way they know to play 17th and 18th century music is with wild abandon. They bring their unique sound to an arrangement of the Prelude ...

Pinchgut Opera performs Bach's glorious Easter Oratorio featuring young soloists Alexandra Oomens and Anna Dowsley, followed by the rarely-heard Thunder Ode of Telemann. In 1755 Lisbon was virtually ...

Georg Philipp Telemann was one of history’s most prolific composers. He wrote some 3,000 works in virtually every existing genre, and at his death, in 1767, he was widely considered the leading ...

Making big statements in music doesn’t require big forces. Even one inspired artist can achieve monumental results delving into the ideas a composer has set forth. It is taking only four members of ...

It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...

The concert will highlight the intricate interplay between soloists in Bach’s “Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor” and feature other works for strings and harpsichord. The musicians also will ...