Our 25th birthday celebration continues with a dazzling performance of Chopin by a gifted 16-year-old cellist. We are treated to a performance of Vivaldi by a young bassoonist and witness a ...

Recent recordings have given a lot of emphasis to Vivaldi's music for the violin. In particular, The Four Seasons has seen a nearly unparalleled resurgence in popularity. This week let's take a ...

As recently as 1945, Antonio Vivaldi was known to music lovers, if at all, mostly by a highly dubious concerto arrangement by Fritz Kreisler. In his lifetime, Vivaldi had published a dozen sets of ...

Let’s face it, to some, the bassoon doesn’t always come across as the most serious of instruments in an orchestra. It doesn’t have the fame of the ensemble’s most abundant instrument, the violin; it ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Daniel Smith, who was one of the few bassoonists recording and performing ...

Lucie Skeaping explores how the bassoon developed from its forerunner - the curtel, dulcian or bajon, with the help of experts Maggie Kilbey and Andrew Watts. With music by Schutz. Show more Lucie ...