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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spring elation and derangement was interrupted twice this weekend for music, beginning with an assemblage from Quebec City: the Violons du Roy with guest conductor Richard Egarr from the Academy of ...

When the first half of the South Bank Centre’s year-long The Rest Is Noise festival was announced it brought mild accusations of conservatism from certain quarters. In some respects this was a little ...

Unlike The Bard, however, Purcell is supposed to have caught the cold after returning home late from the theatre one night to ...