Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | English | Alcina, HWV 34: excerpts

London: a truly European city, a magnet for talented musicians, was brought alive by the European Union Baroque Orchestra at the Bolzano Festival in Italy.

Bringing together disparate art forms is no easy task, as Tafelmusik's latest concert House of Dreams sadly proves. 

22 November 2012 would have been Benjamin Britten’s 99th birthday. Wigmore Hall marked the occasion with the first concert in a series of nine events in November and December. However, rather than focusing exclusively on Britten’s music, it built towards the climax that saw Britten’s angst-ridden late masterpiece Phaedra searingly performed.