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Manchester Collective and Abel Selaocoe aim to reshape classical music with their collaboration Sirocco. Their breathtaking performance at the 92nd Street Y is more rock concert than chamber recital.

Scotland's Dunedin Consort offers a radiant program of Purcell and his peers.

A performance Vaughan Williams' Job to truly cherish, with Manze using all his experience to produce a mature and thrilling account of this masterpiece.

A semi-staged Dido from the Academy of Ancient Music and the speculative funeral music for a queen.

Half-arty, half-folky, this collaboration between bass-baritone Florian Boesch and the East Tyrolean ensemble Franui was an entertaining mixed bag.

Themed around legendary African queens Dido and Cleopatra, Prohaska’s recital with the virtuosi of Il Giardino Armonico could serve as a template for the ideal Baroque programme.

Inhibited by a cold and unable to give a full 100%, Andreas Scholl pulled off a solid 99 in a recital of early English music with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin.

The OAE Night Shift team and their smartphone perform Purcell in a surprisngly formal setting at Sage Gateshead. 

On entering the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre, you feel like you are stepping back in time with its painted ceiling, cushioned benches (a modern luxury) and a candlelit bare stage.

John Woolrich is a publically undervalued contributor to British musical life. This evening’s concert attempted to celebrate as many of the man’s musical guises as possible.

St Andrews Voices was a perfect platform for Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside to exlore the fine line between madness and genuis in a compelling song recital.

In commemoration of Britten’s centennial, the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, in collaboration with the British Council programmed a series entitled “Britten Classics”. This concert was a highlight.

Shakespeare’s Globe is currently hosting playwright Samuel Adamson’s Gabriel, described as “an entertainment with trumpet”. Alison Balsom, the internationally recognised trumpeter and creative producer of this show, presented musical extracts from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, King Arthur and Dioclesian, along with many other odes and songs by Purcell and other Baroque composers.

Keeping up their tradition of mixing contemporary repertoire and new commissions with early music, Fretwork presented an eclectic mix of Purcell Fantasias and a variety of modern works written or arranged for viol consort and soprano in tonight’s concert, part of the RCM’s annual viol festival.

The second of violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved's Soundbox series once again took place in the exposed-brick Green Room above the bar at Wilton's Music Hall. As with Soundbox 1, the programme comprised short bursts of music with readings of contemporary material, but this time we also had visual aids in the form of postcards, which were referred to througout.

If Vienna is the holy temple of classical music (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Bruckner and Mahler all spent large tracts of their careers here), then the Musikverein is its holy of holies. Just soaking in all that history makes a visit here into a special occasion, and the heavily gilt halls are as opulent and redolent of empire as you might imagine.

17th Century Europe witnessed the rise of Italian opera and French ballet. These forms, and the distinct musical language of their composers, were highly influential on the music of England and Germany. The cosmopolitan music of Henry Purcell made up the bulk of The English Concert’s program, along with two instrumental works by his German contemporaries Heinrich Biber and Georg Muffat.

Put on a good quality string trio at a London classical music venue and there's one thing you can be sure about: the average age of the audience is going to be over 60. But then the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment weren't exactly playing by the usual rules.

Wenn Musikträume in Poeticall Musicke to be sung to the Lyra viol wahr werden, dann ist „come again” innig-ernster Wunsch, diese Sinnlichkeit schnell wieder in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen.

Beim Gedenkkonzert zum 400. Todestag des grossen englischen Komponisten setzten die Sängerin Jessica Jans, die Cembalistin Friederike Chylek und das Cellini Consort Massstäbe.

Accompagné du Gabetta Consort, le contre-ténor déploie une santé vocale de feu dans un récital consacré principalement à des airs de Vinci et Haendel.

Le contre-ténor allemand brille de mille feux dans un concert où s'illustre également le jeune orchestre PRJCT, sous la direction de Maarten Engeltjes.

In meiner Geschichte mit dem Festival eines der gelungensten Konzerte unter Leitung Hermann Max', das glücklich und wieder Hoffnung auf Kommendes machte.

Théotime Langlois de Swarte et Thomas Dunford ont ravivé la flamme improvisatrice du début du dix-huitième siècle, dans un récital royal au château d'Hardelot.

The King's Consort realizan un viaje por el siglo XVII inglés, con música escrita en torno a las obras de Shakespeare.

Ein Komponistenklassentreffen der anderen Art: Ligeti, Purcell und Strauss ikommen im Wiener Konzerthaus zusammen.

Le 17 octobre, Patricia Petibon interprétait un récital « Monstres, sorcères et magiciens » au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, secondée par la basse Nahuel di Pierro, et accompagnée par le Concert d'Astrée sous la baguette d'Emmanuelle Haïm. Une soirée parsemée de beaux moments, mais pas inoubliable.

Mystérieuses et puissantes associations des univers baroque et folk