Who needs a continuo? The Flautist has both melody and bass covered... You usually hear Bach's beautiful flute sonatas with a solo flute, and then accompanying basso continuo (harpsichord, chamber ...

The Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flute plays a 19th-century wooden instrument he found in an antique shop and repaired. Though technically inauthentic, its soft, caressing tone suits Bach. In the ...

The young Hungarian flutist Dora Seres plays music by C.P.E. Bach. Seres is in concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston with pianist Emese Mali (EH-meh-sheh MAH-lee) and C.P.E. Bach's ...

In my conversation with Cleveland Orchestra principal flutist Joshua Smith we talked about the influence of classical rhetoric on the work of baroque composers. You can hear that in his most recent CD ...

Flautist Piccinini is coupled with the Brasil Guitar Duo for readings of JS Bach’s popular Flute Sonatas. The sonatas are conventionally played with piano or harpsichord accompaniment, but this unique ...

Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a ...

Explorations deep into the language of music. There’s a lot that’s Bach, and a lot that’s not. Hosted by Sherry Gendleman and Anthony Bonet. Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexander Melnikov Cello Sonata in G ...

Explorations deep into the language of music. There’s a lot that’s Bach, and a lot that’s not. Hosted by Sherry Gendleman and Anthony Bonet. Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy & Lynn Harrell Piano ...