Francois Couperin, or "Couperin le Grand." Francois Couperin, also known as "Couperin le Grand." One key French composer will be well represented on the program even though he didn’t directly write ...

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 ...

François Couperin is best known today as a harpsichord composer, but today you're treated to one of his most vast and impressive chamber music projects... Les Nations (The Nations) celebrates four of ...

Spokane’s Allegro Baroque and Beyond series will examine two of classical music’s most famous families – Germany’s Bachs and France’s Couperins – in “A Tale of Two Dynasties” on Friday. The Couperins, ...

The 350-year birthday of French Baroque composer Francois Couperin was celebrated by the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, conducted by David Shemer, performing some of his and his contemporaries’ – George ...

After a childhood spent practicing an instrument, composers, no matter how rebellious, remain bound to the past. John Cage’s attraction to Mozart was lifelong. Stravinsky adored Tchaikovsky, ...

The Getty Museum likes to synchronize its musical presentations with artistic exhibitions from the same period, but sometimes that proves to be something of a stretch. Take Saturday night (and Sunday ...

Jennet Ingle acquired a special mask during the pandemic — it has a flap that allows her to play her oboe in public. The mask completely covers her nose and, under the flap, most of her mouth. “I do ...

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 ...

The paramount quality of Angela Hewitt's piano playing is the joy it communicates. Underpinning it there is incontrovertible intellectual rigour; and there are great reserves of wisdom and technical ...

March Madness voting kicks off with the Baroque Era. It's a counterpoint and fugue melee! Welcome to the first round of voting for the Classical 101 March Madness Tournament! Today we'll be voting on ...