Who needs a continuo? The Flautist has both melody and bass covered... You usually hear Bach's beautiful flute sonatas with a solo flute, and then accompanying basso continuo (harpsichord, chamber ...

The Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flute plays a 19th-century wooden instrument he found in an antique shop and repaired. Though technically inauthentic, its soft, caressing tone suits Bach. In the ...

In my conversation with Cleveland Orchestra principal flutist Joshua Smith we talked about the influence of classical rhetoric on the work of baroque composers. You can hear that in his most recent CD ...

Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a ...

The young Hungarian flutist Dora Seres plays music by C.P.E. Bach. Seres is in concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston with pianist Emese Mali (EH-meh-sheh MAH-lee) and C.P.E. Bach's ...

About the Event Experience the music of J.S. Bach like never before as flutist Emi Ferguson and Ruckus break free from tradition, taking the composer’s timeless music into a vibrant new realm.