This week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the music of Michael Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As part of the Baroque Spring celebrations, the orchestra have specially recorded Tippett's Fantasia ...

In December 2002, the members of early music ensemble Parnassus Avenue Baroque visited NPR to perform and discuss their work. Today's program features two pieces from that performance, plus a bit of ...

A lesser-known Italian composer of the same vintage as Corelli and Handel made his name in Rome in the early 18th century. He was best known as Little Ragamuffin, a.k.a Giuseppe Valentini. Valentini's ...

The tercentenary of the death of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), one of the greatest and most admired composers of his age, has gone almost unnoticed in concert in Ireland. Happily that’s not the case ...

For half a century, the Cheltenham Festival, ceded by Michael Berkeley this year to the conductor Martyn Brabbins, has confirmed the town's impeccable music credentials. Its intimate Regency Pittville ...

With the cancellation of live music events, Radio 3 is giving listeners a chance to hear notable recently recorded concerts by the same ensembles who should have been heard in tonight's live programme ...

The San Antonio Symphony continues its Baroque series with a program of Italian Baroque music this weekend. Principal Cello Kenneth Freudigman (above) will perform Tartini's Cello Concerto; the ...

A sound not heard in London for 200 years will fill the Queen Elizabeth Hall tomorrow. Belgian violinist Sigiswald Kuijken believes that pieces by Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli were written not for the ...