When Bach was trying to figure out how to write concertos, he turned to Vivaldi for inspiration. He transcribed at least 10 violin concertos by the Italian master for keyboard to study them as models ...

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Trumpeter Matthias Höfs plays Bach's Vivaldi transcriptions.

There’s been some lovely music composed for Easter, including a brand-new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio, which he wrote to celebrate the holiday in Leipzig, Germany, in 1725.

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Once Proms season comes around, there aren’t many better places to be on a Sunday morning than at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a return to more traditional Proms fare this time, with a trip to the ...

Naomi: The style of music called Baroque developed from about the year 1600 onwards. Just like the architecture of the time, it was very ornate and lavish and was dominated by composers like Vivaldi, ...