Diana Doherty is featured soloist in this selection of Baroque gems performed by the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. With her partner in music and life, fellow SSO member Alexandre Oguey on cor anglais, ...

Pianists and string players often hold the monopoly on the soloist's spotlight, especially on Melbourne's stages. So it was a rare pleasure to see one of Australia's finest woodwind virtuosos, oboist ...

Beethoven adored him, calling him "the greatest composer that ever lived," while Tchaikovsky dismissed him as "fourth rate." Despite those mixed reviews, George Frideric Handel lives on as one of the ...

Wen Yang became a fan of Baroque music while earning her master's degree at the Yale School of Music. She was especially drawn to the idea of performing with period instruments—either antiques or high ...

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at⋅7:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Center For Performing Arts, Souers Recital Hall Faculty Oboe Recital: Andrea Ridilla, with guest Italian harpsichordist Giacomo Benedetti.

The oboe has been a regular fixture in classical orchestras since the Baroque era – but its melancholic, singing tone is also an essential ingredient in some of the best-known pop bangers. Before we ...

AT A recent BBC Proms concert, a French choir and orchestra named Pygmalion performed Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a baroque masterpiece. The audience can be forgiven for not being ...

Berlin, Germany, August 22, 2023 — Orchestral Tools announces that the Berlin Harpsichords collection is now available on SINE for the very first time. To celebrate the release, Orchestral Tools has ...

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The Dutch-based Newton Classics is the latest arrival in the increasingly crowded reissue market. The label intends, eventually, to release new recordings of its own, but initially it is concentrating ...