Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...

Imagine 76 sackbuts leading a big Baroque parade. It's improbable, but what a sound those early versions of the trombone would make en masse. Oltremontano, a brass ensemble based in Belgium, includes ...