Many of the great jazz musicians from Charlie Parker to George Russell were influenced by Western classical music. It is with this justification that I submit a review of classical, or more ...

KorMalta, Malta’s National Choir, is an initiative of Arts Council Malta, within the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government. KorMalta was set up towards the end of 2018 as Malta’s National ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Audio will be available later today. We hear an ensemble called Musica Antiqua Cologne play music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. They play a Gigue for Two Violins. Sponsor ...

Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) was a Bohemian fiddler with a serious Marian fixation (or at least his supporters had such a fixation). He is best known for a series of 16 violin sonatas, Mysterien Sonaten ...

Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Biber’s first appearance in the historical records is in his early 20s, when ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" is not a work that the German Baroque composer would have recognized: It's a Marian Vespers that Cologne-based conductor Konrad Junghänel has ...

Gunar Letzbor and the musicians of Ars Antiqua Austria are big fans of the great 17th-century Austrian composer and violinist Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1744-1704). But, says, Letzbor, they dallied ...

In the 1990s, some of the most distinguished names in early music–Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul McCreesh, Philip Pickett, Jordi Savall–recorded vocal works by the 17th Century composer Heinrich ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Salzburg composer and violinist and wrote a set of seven partitas called Harmonia artificiosa-arioso in 1696. The French harpsichordist and composer Élisabeth ...

The Musicians In Ordinary, as Ensemble-in-Residence at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, continue their cycle of the entire Rosary Sonatas for violin and continuo by 17th century ...