There’s been some lovely music composed for Easter, including a brand-new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

Another epoch in art, the Baroque, took its fullest form when another ... Although the Nesvizh and Kraków churches were pioneering projects for the new era, the typical Baroque interior design in line ...

and Sunday Baroque will celebrate the occasion with music reflecting a Baroque era musical sense of humor. You’ll hear a comic concerto, a wacky French opera about a hideous swamp beast ...

There’s a reason this capital city has inspired composers, artists, and royalty for centuries. Vienna is a city that’s ...

The Baroque musical era predated it, from 1600 to 1750. Now very popular among younger people, classical music is listened to by 60 per cent of under-35s, according to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque ... period when the artist began to “ingagliardire gli oscuri” (“invigorate the dark shades”), in the memorable phrase of the 17th-century painter and ...

Courtesy Beyond Baroque Last year the Venice-based literary hub's efforts to expand its community and support new writing and art made for a landmark year, providing free and paid programming and ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved narrative depth and psychological complexity through a striking interplay of shadow and light.