Linking Early Music: Bach, Beethoven, Bolivian Baroque,

By Bernard Gordillo

Published August 21, 2019 at 6:45 PM EDT

...BBC Proms, and the British Library.

By pure coincidence, the end-of-week link round up has a lot of the letter B in it—all good stuff and worth checking out. And, as always, this week's blog posts are linked at the bottom of the page.

It looks as if J.S. Bach has a bit more in common with Arnold Schoenberg than we originally thought.

More Bach, and staged(!).

This year's BBC Proms offer some excellent performances that can be heard online, including some Purcell and Handel.

The Bolivian baroque from a Bolivian perspective.

A well-known author and his love of Beethoven.

What happens when you look up Haydn, Handel, or Purcell in the British Library's archive of sound recordings?

The best 100 classical recordings according to the Telegraph.

In case you missed them, here are this week’s blog posts:

"Questions for Angela Mariani" -the host of Harmonia answers questions about life in Lubbock, Texas.

"Wanna play baroque violin?" -about an article on how modern violinists can approach historical performance.

"What's on Youtube: Philippe Jaroussky" -videos of the young French countertenor.