All period instruments articles
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Blogs‘Have we forgotten to behold careful craftsmanship?’: How period string instruments can inspire today’s composers
Composer Ng Yu Hng on how he came to find inspiration from the idiosyncrasies of the Baroque violin, viol and viola da gamba, and what contemporary classical composers can learn from these period instruments
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NewsContinuo Foundation grants £100,000 to 27 period-instrument ensembles
In celebration of Early Music Day, selected ensembles across the UK have received funding for projects and concert tours
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NewsThe Continuo Foundation invites applications for seventh round of grants
£100,000 in grants will be awarded for early music tours and artistic projects in the UK between April and October 2024
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NewsTwo period instrument ensembles to receive 2023 Heinrich Schütz Prize
Musica Fiata and La Capella Ducale will receive the honour at a ceremony on 14 October
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VideoAcademy of Ancient Music celebrates 50th anniversary
The musicians first came together for a recording session on 17 September 1973
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NewsNew fellowship programme gives tour opportunity to young period instrumentalists
Three violinists and a cellist from Theresia Orchestra will join period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico on a European tour in September 2023
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BlogsBaroque music was invented in Italy – and spread like wildfire
Violinist Johannes Pramsohler writes about the latest two albums from Ensemble Diderot, dedicated to the Italian influence on music in Paris and London
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VideoL'Achéron: Orlando Gibbons, Fancy for six viols
François Joubert-Caillet leads viol consort L’Achéron in a Fancy by Orlando Gibbons, an English composer contemporary of Shakespeare. Recorded at the Église de Centeilles, Siran, in the Minervois region of France, the performance is on a matched set of instruments by maker Arnaud Giral. The musicians are: François Joubert-Caillet ...
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VideoQuicksilver Baroque: Fux Sonata a Quattro, K. 347
The US-based early music ensemble Quicksilver Baroque performs a Sonata a Quattro (four parts plus continuo) by Johann Joseph Fux. Fux, who died 278 years ago today, is best known today for his treatise on counterpoint, the Gradus ad Parnassum, which the likes of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all ...
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VideoViolaCam meets Torelli Sinfonia in C
The Baroque ensemble La Serenissima in rehearsal from the vantage point of violist Jim O’Toole. The Sinfonia in C by Giuseppe Torelli is featured on the group’s award-winning album The Italian Job.
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ReviewEybler Quartet: Beethoven Quartets op.18 nos.1-3
Subtly restrained period instrument performances prove that less is more
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VideoIntroducing the Baroque double bass
In this video from the London-based Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, double bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer introduces the – or as she more accurately puts its, ‘a’ – Baroque double bass
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ArticleSteven Isserlis on period instruments and his Stradivarius cello
I have always said that playing on an authentic or period instrument is like acting Shakespeare with original pronunciation. It will makes some things simpler and clearer'Steven Isserlis talks about his love of period instruments and his Stradivarius cello ahead of performances with the Academy of Ancient Music ...
