Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Biber’s first appearance in the historical records is in his early 20s, when ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" is not a work that the German Baroque composer would have recognized: It's a Marian Vespers that Cologne-based conductor Konrad Junghänel has ...

KorMalta, Malta’s National Choir, is an initiative of Arts Council Malta, within the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government. KorMalta was set up towards the end of 2018 as Malta’s National ...

CAMBRIDGE — Every concertgoer knows the curiously comforting sound of string instruments tuning up before a concert, the hall abuzz with the sound of perfect fifths. But for anyone casually dropping ...

Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Monday - Career Move Biber runs an errand for his boss, but absconds en route. Tuesday - ...

Many of the great jazz musicians from Charlie Parker to George Russell were influenced by Western classical music. It is with this justification that I submit a review of classical, or more ...

Catherine Bott presents a live edition from the National Centre for Early Music, featuring the ensemble Ricordo with members of Het Caecilia Concert. The programmes celebrates the 300th anniversary of ...

What is it, I wonder, about the music of Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) that tugs so insistently on 21st-century imaginations? The Austrian-based composer was the foremost violin virtuoso of his day; ...

ALTHOUGH 17TH-CENTURY composer Heinrich Biber‘s violin music is now semi-famous, his setting of the Stabat Mater, the Latin text describing Mary’s sorrows during Jesus’ Crucifixion, has lain ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Salzburg composer and violinist and wrote a set of seven partitas called Harmonia artificiosa-arioso in 1696. The French harpsichordist and composer Élisabeth ...

Introducing... York Early Music Festival, the July celebration of the genius of Biber and the musical heritage of France. THE 2004 York Early Music Festival will take its inspiration from the ...