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Schiff takes the long view in Mendelssohn's unfashionable masterpiece. 

Masaaki Suzuki leads the Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment through Bach's Christmas Oratorio across two evenings at the Southbank Centre. 

A classy and charming adventure through Gilbert & Sullivan with the OAE and John Wilson .

Challenging and vivid Bach in the first UK showing of Peter Sellars' staging of Bach's great liturgical masterpiece.

It was unfair to pair the exquisite madrigals and songs of Barbara Strozzi with a weighty piece by Monteverdi.

Marin Alsop and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lead a searing account of Brahms' German Requiem and Vaughan Williams. 

Sir András Schiff and the OAE serve up three delectable dishes created by the irrespressible and inimitable Papa Haydn.

Suffering, forgiveness, and natural brass in a brand new dramatic oratorio

A performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt performed by the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of the Enlightenment with William Christie conducting.

Jamie Barton emerged as the star of the OAE/Marin Alsop's all-Brahms Prom, which included the first Proms performance of Brahms' Triumphlied.

Written in the late 1740s, Judas Maccabaeus was a clever attempt by the ever-wily Handel to capitalize on recent successes, both his own – in the form of the now-established oratorio concert – and that of the nation, in the wake of the recent victories over Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Scottish rebels.