It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...
That's the name of a new album of baroque chamber music from the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan and Ensemble Marsyas. There is no exclamation mark, no hint of irony. The cover art shows an elegant 18th ...
James Oliver Bolyard, 52, a professional musicologist and leading exponent of the baroque bassoon, died of liver cancer June 4 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He was a resident of Arlington ...
The solo oboist gets a workout in this concerto for oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello by Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Gottfried van der Goltz ...