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Taking two generations of the Bach family, Solomon’s Knot reinvigorate their motets with vision and excellent execution. 

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

An exciting new partnership between Owain Park and Cambridge Chorale got off to a good start with a first concert of Bach and Parry. 

The Sixteen, augmented by alumni of Genesis Sixteen, proved to be the perfect instrument for Pärt, but lacked personality in Bach.

Bach, Biber, St. John's Smith Square. Clever juxtapositions, and they worked. The programmer of this concert - by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Solists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner - had a neat thought, to place Bach's six Motets (BWV 225-230) into the former church in SW1. The building and the motets date from the same decade, the 1720's.

The Closing Concert of the Lammermuir Festival took place in the historic St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington – the site of John Knox's ordination as a Catholic priest, some years before the volte face which saw him spearheading the Scottish Reformation. An all-Baroque programme was presented by the Dunedin Consort, animatedly directed from the keyboard by John Butt.