Features
Explore the world of Baroque & Early Music through artist interviews, curated playlists, new album features, videos and much more.
Highlights
Bach’s ‘St John Passion’: balancing human drama and spiritual devotion
Ashutosh Khandekar sheds light on how Bach’s ‘St John Passion’ combines dramatic urgency, theological depth and evolving performance traditions to remain one of the composer’s most immediate and compelling sacred works.
Handel at home: life and music on Brook Street
Continuo Connect’s Simon Mundy explores the history of the Handel Hendrix House as the museum celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Articles
Elisabetta da Gambarini: A musical force of nature in Georgian London
Ahead of Academy of Ancient Music’s concert, ‘Gambarini: English Impressaria’, Rachel Stroud reflects on Elisabetta da Gambarini’s remarkable career.
Sisters of polyphony
Laurie Stras uncovers the stories behind the extraordinary Biffoli–Sostegni manuscript, and traces the lives of the nuns who sang from it.
Spotlight
In conversation: Eva Caballero
Continuo Connect meets flautist Eva Cabellero to find out how she got into the flute what she loves most about Early Music and much more.
In conversation: Joseph Lowe
Continuo catches up with violinist and violist Joseph Lowe to talk about his journey into Early Music and his recent video recording with the Lowe Ensemble.
In Conversation: Agata Daraškaitė
Continuo Connect catches up with the first violinist of the Consone Quartet, Agata Daraškaitė to discuss her route into music and Consone's recent projects.
Watch & Listen
Bellot Ensemble | Cavalli: ‘Se dardo pungente’
‘Se dardo pungente’ is Medea’s strophic lament in Cavalli’s Il Giasone. Alone on stage, she describes love as a wound, an inescapable force that both exalts and consumes.
Playlist: Women in Music
Continuo's latest playlist celebrates International Women's Day through tracks by women composers from the 11th century to the present day.
From the Heart | Sabi Ensemble
Sabi Ensemble releases its debut album, 'From the Heart', featuring chamber works by Coleridge-Taylor and Louise Farrenc.
Ensemble Hesperi with Hesperi Voices | Celestial music did the Gods inspire
Ensemble Hesperi presents a programme inspired by the historic ‘Organ Battle’ at the Temple Church in the 1680s between two leading organ builders of the day, Bernhard Smith and Renatus Harris. Featuring the music of John Blow and Henry Purcell...
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.