Music from the French Baroque has a very different feel from the more familiar styles by Bach and Vivaldi. The scores of Couperin, Rameau and their peers have a melodic/harmonic piquancy that sets ...

A flutist who also plays the bagpipes is a rarity, as is playing the recorder, flute and bagpipes in one concert. Francois Lazarevitch did it beautifully Monday in the last of the French Embassy's ...

In no other age did music and politics converge as successfully as they did under the reign of Louis XIV. Throughout his lengthy reign, 1661 to 1715, the Sun King systematically exploited cultural ...

With Pan Harmonia on hiatus until the start of its 19th season on Sept. 9, its sister organization is ready to fill the local chamber music void. On Saturday, July 14, at 7:30 p.m., Asheville Baroque ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Two internationally known early music soloists will come from Germany and Montreal to perform French works from the reign of Louis XIV and XV at 1 p.m. Saturday. The concert, “Immortal ...

Diversity and representation are banging on the doors of the world's concert halls and operas houses in ways those institutions ignore at their peril. If that's slightly less true in the case of ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The rap against French baroque music is that it's a good way to empty out your concert hall. Aston Magna defied the gods of the box office Saturday night with an entire program ...