Since it was launched in 2005, the Pacific Baroque Festival has ranged widely, both geographically and stylistically, through the music of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, in thematically unified ...

After last week’s Mahler 8, another gargantuan choral work makes a welcome appearance on disc. Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts was first performed in the church of Les Invalides in 1837. The composer ...

For 20 years, the Dryden Ensemble has presented historically informed concerts of Baroque music to local audiences. This weekend, to commence the group's 20th season, founding director Jane McKinley ...

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido ...

The superb German countertenor puts ravishing spins on music by Purcell, including an achingly beautiful account of Dido's Lament. Hearing a high male voice sing these works is a refreshing experience ...

Carl Nielsen cast a long shadow over the generation of Danish composers who succeeded him, and there's mention here of post-war musicians trying to reconcile “Danishness” with modernity. One of them ...

Vincent Dumestre and his radiant ensemble bring theatrical flair and exquisite detail to a joyous celebration of England’s patron saint of the baroque It’s heartening to see European ensembles ...

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One of the major features of the Ryedale Festival is the special quality of the locations of its various events, and it would be hard to find a more spectacular setting than the Church of St Peter and ...

The cycles of a good ground bass can often feel like the cycles of grief, or even the physical experience of an uncomfortable spiral. If the English Restoration-era composer Henry Purcell were alive ...