Roderick Williams is counted (in the world of ‘classical’ music, at any rate) as a national treasure, and these days we’re ...

Never The Same is such a classic Cribs banger that you can practically smell the Lynx Dark Temptation and Impulse Musk stench ...

Adventurous, playful and, at times, aggressive, their third album throws their own carefully defined and beautifully curated ...

From Taverner to Today review – Christ Church Cathedral Choir celebrate Twelfth Night and a special anniversary at Wigmore ...

Putting aside elves on shelves, Rudolph, Santa’s unhealthy diet and other 20 th century customs, Christmas has long had folklore and traditions associated with it that, while not found in the biblical ...

There’s nothing like an invigorating blast of trumpets and glory to start the final countdown to Christmas, and, performing true to form on Friday evening, the early-music ensemble Vox Luminis, under ...

The Gesualdo Six’s Advent calendar this year consists of five dates in Clervaux, Helsinki, London, Cambridge and Stroud; Wednesday evening saw them at Smith Square for the second of these. While many ...

Not only is The Glasshouse International Centre for Music spectacularly set on the banks of the River Tyne, with wide views of the city of Newcastle, but it houses in Sage One a superb concert hall ...

Baroque specialist ensemble Pulcinella, under cellist and Director Ophélie Gaillard, are joined by countertenor Zoltán Daragó for a smorgasbord of short works by Handel, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Porpora ...

Charpentier, Howells and Thomas make for slightly odd bedfellows in a Christmas presentation from the innovative vocal (and instrumental) ensemble under director Robert Hollingsworth. The instruments ...

It’s rare these days for an artist to arrive, seemingly fully-formed, with no advance hype. At the risk of sounding like an old man shouting at a cloud, it’s all algorithms, Tik Toks and content ...

Staged at Covent Garden for the first time since its 1735 premiere, this new Ariodante reframes Handel’s drama as a Chekhovian family implosion that yields mixed results. Relationships fray almost ...