Performing all six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in a single concert is a relatively rare occurrence, so this was a very welcome event in Basingstoke’s Anvil concert hall, a favourite…

Victims of their own success in the postwar era of well-recorded sound, the Brandenburg Concertos first arrived in the ears of listeners from my generation via glossy, plush and polished…

St Adrian's, Cellardyke 3/7/26 The English Concert Winds St Adrian’s in Cellardyke (formerly – and still according to the plaque outside the main entrance – St Ayle’s; a.k.a. Cellardyke Church…

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Tim Mead, Sarah Brady, Jess Dandy, Zheng Jiang, James Atkinson, director: David Alder, Early Opera Company, conductor Christian Curnyn; The Grange Festival Reviewed 25 June…

SOME of the reviewers of this sparklingly sexy and imaginative production have compared it to David McVicar’s famous Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne – and found David Alden’s production lacking in…

"Immortal Harmony" London Festival of Baroque Music Arcangelo, Spiritato, Les Demoiselles Couperin, Choir of New College Oxford, Ensemble Marguerite Louse Versailes, Smith Square Hall, 1, 7 & 8 November 2025…

Handel: Giustino; Polly Leech, Mireille Asselin, Keri Fuge, Esme Bronwen Smith, Jake Arditti, Benjamin Hulett, Jonathan Lemalu, director: Joe Hill-Gibbins, La Nuova Musica, conductor: David Bates; Linbury Theatre at the…

Louise Alder and Christophe Dumaux shone in this inventively staged performance by the English Concert The Times

The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel's greatest hits. Less than 48 hours after a new production of "Giulio Cesare in…

We are in a new age of the countertenor. After a long era of obscurity, the presence and popularity of the male mezzo-soprano has returned in force. Ambitious exemplars like…