It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...

That's the name of a new album of baroque chamber music from the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan and Ensemble Marsyas. There is no exclamation mark, no hint of irony. The cover art shows an elegant 18th ...

James Oliver Bolyard, 52, a professional musicologist and leading exponent of the baroque bassoon, died of liver cancer June 4 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He was a resident of Arlington ...

After a marathon concert on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, during which six emerging period-instrument ensembles presented their best music-making in 20- to 25-minute sets in Early Music America's first ...