Music in Vienna had its first flourishing long before Mozart and Haydn. Our recording explores brilliant and sumptuously beautiful music one could hear in 17th century Vienna, including music by ...

You hear a musician use the words radical, experimental, avant-garde, and you think that the subject must be some young composer or newly minted piece that stretches, even threatens, our understanding ...

It's called "early music" - classical music that hails from Europe's past, before the days of railways, electricity and other foundations of the world today. Yet one early-music ensemble - Quicksilver ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a performance by the ensemble Quicksilver of a Sonata by Heinrich Biber. This is such a delightful performance, but I'd like to call your attention specifically to two of ...

The peak-period Quicksilver Messenger Service, the band which recorded 1968 and 1969’s ‘Quicksilver Messenger Service’ and ‘Happy Trails’ albums. From left: Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, Greg Elmore, ...

“Chamber music is a genre with which one can express one’s deepest feelings,” said Darius Milhaud; just listen to the tough, halting chorales of the Modéré from his 1947 String Trio to hear what he ...