Just like the architecture of the time, it was very ornate and lavish ... Naomi: This is an organ, a popular instrument of the Baroque period. It’s a little bit like woodwind or brass ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

On the other hand, there was a fascination with disorder, with the irrational, with all that does not fit into existing classifications, with illusion, and with rebellion against order […] Walter ...

Violinist Rachel Podger is the founder and artistic director of an annual baroque music festival in Wales, Brecon Baroque ...

The success of Pearlman’s initial Boston church concert led to another, and then to an annual series. His group, eventually ...