The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

Bach in the City, Chicago's newest Baroque period-instrument organization, will present 'Bach's Musical World,' at Allen ...

• For tickets and information about the Northwest Bach Festival, which runs through Sunday, visit www.nwbachfest.com. • On April 15, the Catalyst Quartet will release a recording of the Goldberg ...

Tucson officially became a footnote in the storied career of the Florida-based Amernet String Quartet. On Sunday afternoon, before a full house at the University of Arizona-area Grace St. Paul’s ...

Barefoot Chamber Concerts ("an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality" - San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of ...

Bach, “Testament – Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin performed by Rachel Barton Pine (Avie, two discs). It was 10 days ago that the world could have celebrated one of the great birth ...

We hear three short pieces played by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: the Prelude No. 1 from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Little Fugue in G minor, and the closing movement from the ...

If it feels like there isn’t time to take a breath between the multitude of large-scale live stage productions these days, think how breathless the people singing and performing in two or more of them ...

Electronic effects are nothing new for rock musicians. Guitarists in countless bands — from Radiohead to U2 to Boston's own Mission of Burma — use electronic pedals and programs to alter the sound of ...

J.S. Bach’s final work, the unfinished cycle of fugues and canons known as “Die Kunst der Fugue,” is a summation of Baroque polyphonic practice that, in the right performing hands, transcends ...

The Danish String Quartet is in residency at The La Jolla Music Society from November 16 through November 23. They are presenting five concerts as a part of their Prism project. The players in the ...