Features
Explore the world of Baroque & Early Music through artist interviews, curated playlists, new album features, videos and much more.
Highlights
Spiritato: music out of boundless curiosity
Continuo Connect catches up with Will Russell and Kinga Ujszászi, founding members of the ensemble Spiritato.
Mary-Jannet Leith on collaborating with the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
In the first of a new series of Continuo Connect podcast interviews, Simon Mundy talks to Mary-Jannet Leith of Ensemble Hesperi about their collaboration with the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble and the music that once filled Scotland's country houses.
Articles
Inside the first performances of Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’
‘The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi’ by Dr Hannah French is a fascinating deep dive into the stories, perceptions and humanity behind ‘The Four Seasons’. Following its launch in 2025, we share an exclusive excerpt from the book.
Attila the Stockbroker: Early Music’s punk radical
Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) has spent nearly 50 years as a punk poet, and this August marks his fifth consecutive year bringing his ‘Early Music Show’ to St Cecilia’s Hall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Spotlight
In conversation: Jane Gordon
Continuo Connect catches up with Jane Gordon about her career and her latest recording with the Rautio Piano Trio.
In conversation: Timothy Lin
Continuo Connect catches up with Tim Lin, cellist and gamba player with the Linarol Consort of Viols, Música d'Outrora and other ensembles.
In conversation: Miriam Monaghan
Continuo Connect catches up with Miriam Monaghan, recorder player and member of Palisander recorder quartet, to discuss her career, musical tastes and more.
Watch & Listen
Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations | Le concert spirituel
Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, all experts in historically informed performances, held this special 'Concert spirituel' during the 2010 edition of the Festival Musique et Histoire in Fontfroide Abbey, in Narbonne, France.
Playlist: Early Music Fusion
Explore the fusion of Early Music with jazz, pop and rock music. Listen to Sting’s Dowland, Jacques Loussier’s jazz-inspired Bach, L’Arpeggiata’s take on music by Purcell and Handel, and Attila the Stockbroker’s fusion of punk rock and Renaissance music.
Vivaldi in Prague | The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen have released their latest album, 'Vivaldi in Prague'.
Academy of Ancient Music | Rejoice! Music of Bach, Handel & Purcell
Royal Wedding (and AAM principal) trumpeter David Blackadder joins soprano Rowan Pierce and the Academy of Ancient Music for 'Rejoice!', a spirited programme of Bach, Handel, Purcell and Corelli.
Soler’s Fandango: a new arrangement by the Lowe Ensemble
The Lowe Ensemble performs Antonio Soler's Fandango in an arrangement for strings, harpsichord, baroque guitar, and percussion.
The OAE introduces...
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment presents a series of videos introducing the interesting and unusual instruments commonly found in early music.