Features
Explore the world of Baroque & Early Music through artist interviews, curated playlists, new album features, videos and much more.
Highlights
18th-century Superstars
Leo Duarte shares insights into the Academy of Ancient Music’s 2025/26 season, with programming that shines a spotlight on musical superstars.
Falstaff, friends and home-made focaccia
Continuo’s Writer-in-Residence Simon Mundy meets Nicola Barbagli of the Istante Collective to talk about Salieri, Lebrun, and ten years of Baroquestock.
Articles
Sarah Small: Tuning into climate change
Acclaimed British viola da gamba player Sarah Small reflects on the highlights and challenges of her successful 4,500km 'Good Again?' concert tour.
Rising from the ashes: Music for St Cecilia
For their 2025/26 season, Fiori Musicali are putting together a series of three concerts all tied together under the wings of the phoenix.
Spotlight
In conversation: Nathan Giorgetti
Continuo Connect meets cellist and viola da gamba player, and member of Intesa Duo and Bellot Ensemble, Nathan Giorgetti.
In conversation: Yu-Wei Hu
Continuo meets flautist Yu-Wei Hu, a member of Oxford Bach Soloists, and a founding member of Flauguissimo
In Conversation: Emanuele Addis
Continuo meets guitarist and lute player, Emanuele Addis to discuss his musical background and projects with his ensemble, Londinium Consort.
Watch & Listen
Playlist: The Sacred Baroque
This playlist explores sacred music written during the Baroque period. It includes movements from masses, passions, oratorios and more.
Ricordanze: a record of love
On the new release Ricordanze: a record of love, Musica Secreta present a deep exploration of the haunting and extraordinary music of sixteenth-century nuns.
Iberian Echoes: Early Music from Spain
A playlist that explores Baroque & Early Music from Spain, featuring recordings by the Lowe Ensemble, Lux Musicae, Jordi Savall and more...
Still Life: Early Baroque Fantasy
Musica d'Outrora release their debut album, ‘Still Life’ on the Deux-Elles label, exploring the radical expressivity of the 17th-century ‘stylus fantasticus’.
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.