This spring, Yo-Yo Ma released a new CD, Vivaldi's Cello, recorded with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; he's been touring with the ensemble as well. NPR's Fred Child caught the renowned cellist and ...

There's a playfulness and an irreverence towards the material The stately Ouverture, driven with percussive impulsion by the lower strings, set the pace for the programme, revealing the unusual heft ...

A late programme change meant that soprano Dorothee Mields, soloist with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman in this opening concert of Spitalfields Music Summer festival, had to take on ...

On the other hand, the famed Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir - 27 instrumentalists, 25 voices - under their founder and director Ton Koopman, appearing in the Great Hall of the Guildhall as part ...

Possessed: Ton Koopman of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Credit: Photo: Spitalfields Festival Some performers possess the music they perform, others are possessed by it. Ton Koopman, harpsichordist ...

Dutch organist and harpsichordist Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra will bring music from the Baroque period to audiences in Shanghai. Koopman has appeared in the world's most ...

7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday First Baptist Church Dutch virtuoso Jaap ter Linden is one of early music's original missionaries. On the cello and viola da gamba, he helped several of Europe's finest ...

During the Baroque, the soft-voiced viola da gamba--a fretted, usually six-stringed member of the viol family--co-existed with the cello, which for much of the period was primarily a continuo ...

Fortunately, soprano soloist Dorothee Mields stepped up with Bach’s Cantata BWV 199, giving us a rather more vocal, but no less Bach-centric evening of music to open this year’s Spitalfields Festival.