His life was lived in time of war, plague, and famine. He did not shelter in place. No music was cloaked more darkly in the allure and peril of travel than that of the enigmatic seventeenth-century ...

Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: $15| ArkivMusic: $19 | Qobuz download: £8 - 13 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 Cembalista Alina Rotaru has a new disc out, “Parthenia” (Sono Luminus), the title of which the ...

The season’s forced joyfulness pushes many towards melancholy. All those carols and crooners, the triumphant blasts of angelic trumpets from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah, the smarmy ...

Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His ...

Harpsichordist Sophie Yates looks at the life and music of the German keyboard virtuoso Johann Jakob Froberger, who was born 400 years ago this month.