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German lutenist Andreas Martin gives a masterly performance of Bach's lute works in Malta

Young ensemble demonstrates their maturity at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

Rare Baroque Mass performed in Malta

Schembri and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra brings vitality, enthusiasm and maturity to the final concert of the season.

Bach's St John Passion thrills the audience at Valletta International Baroque Festival. 

Abos' Stabat Mater is given an enthusiastic response at the Valletta International Baroque Festival. 

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra revels in magic and the supernatural.

The Valletta International Baroque Festival reaches a rousing finale with music by Rameau and Handel.

The penultimate concert in the Valletta International Baroque Festival series was a recital of Bach’s keyboard music. The venue for this concert was the Sala Isouard, part of the 17th-century Bonici Palace which now forms part of the foyer to the Manoel Theatre.

Three “living memory” premièrs for Baroque composers at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

This concert for the Valletta International Baroque Festival comprised a programme of melancholy songs with lute by the English lutenist and composer John Dowland, given by Canadian tenor Justin Burwood, accompanied by Swedish lutenist Magnus Andersson.

The Valletta International Baroque Festival  presented a concert featuring the mandolin on Sunday 19 January. This was given by the quartet Classica Pizzicata, made up of four of the best mandolin players currently in Italy.

The Valletta International Baroque Festival concert on 18 January was a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers given by the Valletta International Baroque Ensemble.

The Valletta International Baroque Festival presented the world première of a new arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations, for a string trio – of violin, viola and double bass.

Bach's finest masterpiece brought to Malta in an amazing interpretation, with The English Concert and Harry Bicket.

This evening of sheer entertainment at the Valletta Baroque Festival consisted of a pastiche opera based on Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie.

A rousing opening to the Valletta International Baroque Festival: a performance of Handel’s Messiah.   

Picture a warm May evening, walking the narrow, silent, cool streets of the ancient capital of Malta, then sitting amongst a magnificent collection of 17th- and 18th-century art with a promise of secrets!This was the setting for a concert – no, in fact, a spectacular – held on Friday 10 May at the Cathedral Museum, Mdina.

My sweet course of the sumptuous feast, under the title of the Valletta International Baroque Festival, arrived on 18 January. The fare was a selection of various European deserts, performed by the New Century Baroque at the Jesuit Church in Valletta.

The main course of the sumptuous feast, under the title of the Valletta International Baroque Festival, arrived on 17 January. The fare was an international favourite with a Maltese surprise.The concert, the eighth in the series, was given by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the magnificent setting of the ornate St John’s Co-Cathedral.

My second course of the sumptuous feast under the title of the Valletta International Baroque Festival arrived on 16 January. The fare was a Maltese delicacy with Italian overtones. The concert was performed by the Cappella Sanctae Catharinae at the church dedicated to all souls in Valletta.Cappella Sanctae Catharinae is Malta’s only male choir.

If we consider the word “festival” and its synonym “feast”, the Valletta International Baroque Festival, which started on 9 January and continues to 26 January, has proven to be a sumptuous feast, nay, a veritable banquet.The festival has brought Baroque music to a Baroque city. It is the city’s first, hopefully not the last, festival of music of the Baroque period.