Keyboard fans, rejoice. The Beckerath is back. After falling into decline, the renowned organ at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cleveland has been fully restored, such that Baroque specialist Ton Koopman ...
Ton Koopman, one of the most popular keyboard artists of the early-music movement, took the stage primarily as a conductor for a pair of concerts in the Seattle Symphony’s “Baroque & Wine” series. He ...
What: Ton Koopman conducts works by Bach. When: 8 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20. Where:: Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets:: $40-$136. Go to ...
If–between the great Baroque masses, Bach and Handel oratori and the mature output of the triumviral Hadyn-Mozart-Beethoven– the mid-18th century is a lull of first-order genius, it proved itself to ...
When he composed his motet ‘Exsultate jubilate’ K.165, Mozart was only 17 years old. He was then at the height of his fame. He was 35 when he wrote ‘The Magic Flute’ and died shortly afterwards. Dutch ...
The Baroque, that ornate, sometimes even extravagant, style of art, architecture and music, is something that most of us associate with past and distant glories. Indeed, the Baroque flourished in the ...
Last season, the San Francisco Symphony brought in the Dutch conductor Ton Koopman to lead the orchestra in two stirring weeks’ worth of music by members of the Bach family. For this year’s visit, ...