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Red ties and trumpets: Ton Koopman’s ceremonial Bach at the Elbphilharmonie

By Mengguang Huang, 23 June 2025

Ton Koopman’s Elbphilharmonie debut brings warmth, wit and stylistic brilliance to Bach’s festive cantatas, in a radiant Early Music season finale that balances ceremonial splendour with vivid, human-scale musicianship.

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Hamburg

24 Jun 2025

Ton Koopman’s ceremonial Bach at the Elbphilharmonie

By Mengguang Huang

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Halle

Biblical Handel: Athalia in Halle

By Sandra Bowdler, 26 May 2024

Handel's third English oratorio is presented in strictly traditional fashion at the 2024 Halle Handel Festival but nonetheless generates drama, excitement and excellent singing.

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Halle

28 May 2024

Biblical Handel: Athalia in Halle

By Sandra Bowdler

London

Herreweghe achieves purity and unity in Bach's Mass in B minor

By Nahoko Gotoh, 14 June 2019

There are multiple ways of approaching Bach's Mass in B minor, from the one-to-a-part advocated by Joshua Rifkin to a more conventional large choral approach, and everything in between.

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London

19 Jun 2019

Herreweghe achieves purity and unity in Bach's Mass in B minor

By Nahoko Gotoh

London

A disappointing Mass in B minor from the BBCSO

By Stephen Pritchard, 02 February 2019

Even Baroque specialist John Butt could not persuade the BBC Symphony Chorus to sing in tune

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London

03 Feb 2019

A disappointing Mass in B minor from the BBCSO

By Stephen Pritchard