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Vlaemsch (chez moi): the revitalisation of culture with new blood

By Maggie Foyer, 18 September 2025

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Vlaemsch (chez moi) is an extraordinary piece of dance theatre proving the value of multiculturalism where difference can be absorbed within the search for artistic expression.

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London

18 Sep 2025

Vlaemsch (chez moi): the revitalisation of culture with new blood

By Maggie Foyer

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New York City

Finding the sublime in Bach’s solo works with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

By Kurt Gottschalk, 10 December 2021

Less often heard works for lute and organ sat alongside a violin partita and a cello suite that bordered on perfection.

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New York City

10 Dec 2021

Finding the sublime in Bach’s solo works with the CMS

By Kurt Gottschalk

Ravenna

Plagues and passions: lamentation back before Bach at the Ravenna Festival

By Thomas May, 07 July 2020

Vittorio Ghielmi and his ll Suonar Parlante ensemble present a resonantly melancholy and reflective programme of music mourning loss as live performance returns to Italy.

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Ravenna

07 Jul 2020

Plagues, passions and lamentation at the Ravenna Festival

By Thomas May

Göttingen

Almira's Songbook: Handel meets the world of Spanish music

By Sandra Bowdler, 23 May 2019

A mix of arias from Handel's first opera with music from Renaissance and Baroque Spain with an accomplished group of performers provides a rich and satisfying experience.

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Göttingen

23 May 2019

Almira's Songbook: Handel meets the world of Spanish music

By Sandra Bowdler

New York City

Sciarrino, Ustvolskaya and sounds of darkness in Cantata Profana's “Visions of Silence” in New York

By Kurt Gottschalk, 18 January 2019

An eerie program of resonant sounds and sacred songs overtakes New York’s St Peter's Chelsea with Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Sciarrino and Galina Ustvokskaya alongside 17th-century works for an evening not short on drama.

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New York City

18 Jan 2019

Sounds of darkness in Cantata Profana's “Visions of Silence”

By Kurt Gottschalk

London

“Hey, nonny no!” Bostridge's Shakespeare Songs at Wigmore Hall

By Louise Flind, 14 November 2016

Shakespeare songs turned out to be more of a Shakespeare feast starring Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostridge and the exceptional Eve Best.

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London

14 Nov 2016

Bostridge's Shakespeare Songs at Wigmore Hall

By Louise Flind

London

Maria João Pires and Nigel North provide a sliver of musical reflection

By James Imam, 03 September 2016

To celebrate a popular thinker's influence across the breadth of the arts in a single concert is clearly no small ambition. This programme sagged under the weight of its disparate components, but the individual works shone brilliantly.

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London

03 Sep 2016

A sliver of musical reflection

By James Imam

Zurich

Albrecht Mayer charms the Tonhalle with the best of Baroque

By Sarah Batschelet, 22 March 2016

Widely considered one of the finest oboists of his generation, Albrecht Mayer gave a riveting performance with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the city’s Tonhalle.

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Zurich

22 Mar 2016

Albrecht Mayer charms the Tonhalle

By Sarah Batschelet

Valletta

The Music of Silence - The Magic of the Lute

By Anthony Hart, 29 January 2016

German lutenist Andreas Martin gives a masterly performance of Bach's lute works in Malta

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Valletta

29 Jan 2016

The Music of Silence - The Magic of the Lute

By Anthony Hart

London

Europe by candlelight: Padmore follows Charles Burney at the Sam Wanamaker

By David Karlin, 06 December 2015

Mark Padmore gives a matchless demonstration of English singing as he and the English Concert follow 18th century historian Charles Burney on his travels around Europe.

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London

06 Dec 2015

Europe by candlelight: Padmore follows Charles Burney

By David Karlin

Brighton

Heroines of the Golden Age: Intimacy and variety from Kirkby and Lindberg at Brighton Early Music Festival

By Nick Boston, 04 November 2015

Dame Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg delight with an intimate and varied programme on the theme “Heroines of the Golden Age” at Brighton Early Music Festival.

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Brighton

04 Nov 2015

Heroines of the Golden Age

By Nick Boston

Lewes

Magnificent melancholy at midnight: Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford at the Lewes Chamber Music Festival

By Travis Mason, 13 June 2015

There comes a stage in every countertenor’s career when he feels himself ready to tackle the exposed repertoire of John Dowland, and hence the need to find himself a talented lutenist.

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Lewes

13 Jun 2015

Magnificent melancholy at midnight

By Travis Mason

London

An Italian feast from Andreas Scholl at Wigmore Hall

By Katy Wright, 07 April 2015

A tantalising selection of Italian Baroque music from Andreas Scholl, Avi Avital and friends at Wigmore Hall.

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London

07 Apr 2015

An Italian feast from Andreas Scholl

By Katy Wright

York

Maria Cristina Kiehr holds the York Early Music Festival spellbound

By Travis Mason, 16 July 2014

Maria Cristina Kiehr in an enlightening evening of early Renaissance Spanish music at the York Early Music Festival.

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York

16 Jul 2014

Maria Cristina Kiehr holds the York Early Music Festival spellbound

By Travis Mason

Vancouver

Iestyn Davies: From Dowland's Lute Songs to Muhly's Old Bones

By Kevin W Ng, 30 March 2014

The intimate Vancouver Playhouse was nearly full to hear Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford. Consisting of lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries, in addition to the Canadian premiere of Nico Muhly’s Old Bones, it’s hard to imagine a more artistically satisfying and entertaining way to spend an afternoon.

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Vancouver

30 Mar 2014

Iestyn Davies: From Dowland's Lute Songs to Muhly's Old Bones

By Kevin W Ng

Philadelphia

Lutenist Miguel Yisrael Makes an Auspicious American Debut

By Stephen Raskauskas, 07 March 2014

Solo lute concerts of this repertoire, or lute recitals of any kind for that matter, are rare on this side of the Atlantic. Lucky audiences in Philadelphia heard an exceptional recital of French lute repertoire by Paris-based lutenist Miguel Yisrael.

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Philadelphia

07 Mar 2014

Lutenist Miguel Yisrael Makes an Auspicious American Debut

By Stephen Raskauskas

Valletta

Melancholy airs of John Dowland at the Valletta International Baroque Festival

By Anthony Hart, 19 January 2014

This concert for the Valletta International Baroque Festival comprised a programme of melancholy songs with lute by the English lutenist and composer John Dowland, given by Canadian tenor Justin Burwood, accompanied by Swedish lutenist Magnus Andersson.

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Valletta

19 Jan 2014

Valletta International Baroque Festival: Dowland

By Anthony Hart

London

Proms Chamber Music 8: Dowland's seductive melancholy with Ian Bostridge and Fretwork

By Frances Wilson, 02 September 2013

Amidst the furore of celebrations for the anniversaries of Verdi and Wagner, the final Chamber Prom of this season gave pause to savour the music of the great English Renaissance lutenist, singer and composer John Dowland, whose 450th birthday also falls this year.

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London

02 Sep 2013

Proms Chamber Music 8: Dowland's seductive melancholy with Ian Bostridge and Fretwork

By Frances Wilson

Eltville am Rhein

Early music meets jazz: A Baroque jam session with Rolf Lislevand at the Rheingau Music Festival

By Travis Mason, 13 August 2013

Founded in 2005, Concerto Stella Matutina hail from the musically rich Vorarlberg region of Austria (home of the Schubertiade). For this evening’s concert, they were represented by two violins, a viola, cello and double bass apiece, a concert organ and percussion, plus their magnificent Baroque brass section – three players with a variety of horns, trumpets, trombones and cornetts.

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Eltville am Rhein

13 Aug 2013

Early music meets jazz: A Baroque jam session with Rolf Lislevand at the Rheingau Music Festival

By Travis Mason

London

Another English anniversary: Paul O'Dette plays John Dowland at Wigmore Hall

By Travis Mason, 10 January 2013

A near capacity audience gathered at the Wigmore Hall last week to celebrate another English musical anniversary – not the birth of Benjamin Britten one hundred years ago, but that of lutenist and composer John Dowland, some 350 years earlier.

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London

10 Jan 2013

Another English anniversary: Paul O'Dette plays John Dowland at Wigmore Hall

By Travis Mason

London

Fêtes Galantes: Musical Gallantry at Wigmore Hall

By David Fay, 11 May 2012

‘Fêtes Galantes’ is one of those glorious French phrases that sounds so wonderful but is nigh on impossible to translate. Rather than having any concrete meaning, it evokes Watteau-esque imagery of woodland gatherings, where eighteenth-century aristocrats amuse themselves by flirting, dancing and making music.

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London

11 May 2012

Fêtes Galantes: Musical Gallantry at Wigmore Hall

By David Fay

Philadelphia

Hopkinson Smith: Italian and English Music for the Lute

By Stephen Raskauskas, 02 February 2012

On February 2, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society produced its first-ever solo lute recital, featuring Hopkinson Smith. The concert took place in the intimate Benjamin Franklin Hall at the American Philosophical Society, allowing audiences to enjoy the subtle sounds of the instrument.

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Philadelphia

02 Feb 2012

Hopkinson Smith: Italian and English Music for the Lute

By Stephen Raskauskas

Durham

The Muses Gardin for Delights: Jacob Heringman and Faye Newton

By Jane Shuttleworth, 08 June 2011

The symbolism of plants and images of the garden are abundant in medieval and renaissance art, and this evening’s Musicon concert by Jacob Heringman and Faye Newton celebrated not just the imagined gardens of Elizabethan poetry, but also a real garden.

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Durham

08 Jun 2011

The Muses Gardin for Delights: Jacob Heringman and Faye Newton

By Jane Shuttleworth

London

Life and Soul at Lufthansa Baroque

By Travis Mason, 15 May 2011

The third day of the 27th Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music's journey from Hanseatic to Adriatic stopped off in the spiritual Catholic/Protestant borders of Germany in the latter half of the 17th Century for an intimate session entitled "Life and Soul", which turned out to be a resoundingly cheerful evening, despite all the prayers and laments.

London

15 May 2011

Life and Soul at Lufthansa Baroque

By Travis Mason

London

Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

By Nahoko Gotoh, 06 January 2011

Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.

London

06 Jan 2011

Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

By Nahoko Gotoh

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Toulouse

Casting de rêve pour la Theodora de Jupiter au Capitole de Toulouse

By Emmanuel Gaillard, 02 October 2025

La prise de rôle de Léa Desandre fait l’événement, tandis que la direction de Thomas Dunford marque une belle étape dans sa carrière de chef, avec un ensemble Jupiter aux effectifs renforcés.

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Toulouse

02 Oct 2025

Casting de rêve pour la Theodora de Jupiter au Capitole

By Emmanuel Gaillard

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Geneva

Lamenti e Sospiri : 1h10 de sensualité à l’état pur avec Leonardo García-Alarcón à La Cité Bleue

By Romain Daroles, 05 February 2025

Né du silence et de la décélération de la période inhérente au Covid-19, ce projet autour du compositeur Sigismondo d’India continue de tourner et de marquer les esprits.

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Geneva

05 Feb 2025

La sensualité à l’état pur : Lamenti e Sospiri à La Cité Bleue

By Romain Daroles

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Vienna

To be dreamt, sung, played and written: Tinney und Heumann bei den Wiener Resonanzen

By Jens Klier, 23 January 2025

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.

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Vienna

23 Jan 2025

Wiener Resonanzen: To be dreamt, sung, played and written

By Jens Klier

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Lucerne

L'art de la sprezzatura : Vivaldi par Lea Desandre et l'Ensemble Jupiter au Festival de Lucerne

By Romain Daroles, 08 September 2024

Dans un programme intégralement consacré au prêtre roux, la mezzo-soprano et son ensemble ont associé simplicité et virtuosité, forte présence scénique et humilité.

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Lucerne

08 Sep 2024

L'art de la sprezzatura, par Lea Desandre et Jupiter à Lucerne

By Romain Daroles

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Salamanca

Festín laudístico con Enrike Solinís y el Euskal Barrokensemble

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 31 January 2024

Salamanca Barroca presentó al Euskal Barrokensemble en un programa muy satisfactorio con el laúd como protagonista.

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Salamanca

31 Jan 2024

Festín laudístico con Enrike Solinís y el Euskal Barrokensemble

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

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La Roque d'Anthéron

Le Quatuor Béla et le duo Sabîl : le Luberon en terres orientales

By Manon Decroix, 25 August 2022

Oud et percussions orientales du duo Sabîl étaient invitées à se joindre aux archets au Festival international de Quatuors à cordes du Luberon, dans le cloître de l'abbaye de Silvacane.

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La Roque d'Anthéron

25 Aug 2022

Le Quatuor Béla et le duo Sabîl : le Luberon en terres orientales

By Manon Decroix

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Paris

Le Biber étincelant de Sophie Gent envoûte les Bouffes du Nord

By Philippe Ramin, 23 May 2022

Dans un programme qui mettait à l'honneur le compositeur autrichien, la violoniste était accompagnée de Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford et Myriam Rignol, donnant lieu à un concert d'une grande beauté.

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Paris

23 May 2022

Le Biber étincelant de Sophie Gent envoûte les Bouffes du Nord

By Philippe Ramin

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Paris

Mélancolie à l’anglaise à Cortot : Zachary Wilder chante Dowland

By Philippe Ramin, 17 November 2021

Le ténor américain livre un concert formidable, son chant d'une élégance suprême se mêlant parfaitement à la saveur boisée des cordes de l'ensemble La Chimera.

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Paris

17 Nov 2021

Mélancolie à l’anglaise à Cortot : Zachary Wilder chante Dowland

By Philippe Ramin

Philadelphia

A very good year: Tempesta di Mare feiert Barockrepertoire von 1721

By Jens Klier, 13 March 2021

So wie das Erscheinungsjahr dieses gefeierten Repertoires war auch größtenteils die Aufführung des Ensembles – sehr gut.

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Philadelphia

13 Mar 2021

A very good year: Tempesta di Mare feiert Barockrepertoire von 1721

By Jens Klier

Geel

Wundersames Band der Welten: Les Passions de l'Ame bei Musica Divina Flandern

By Jens Klier, 18 September 2020

Beste Musikalität des Ensembles und somit vitale Heilkraft Bibers und Schmelzers Werke strömte hier durch Kirche und Gefühlsbahnen.

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Geel

18 Sep 2020

Wundersames Band der Welten: Les Passions bei Musica Divina Flandern

By Jens Klier

Ambronay

L’Ensemble Jupiter et Lea Desandre enflamment Ambronay

By Augustin Javel, 18 September 2020

Soirée d'ouverture d'exception pour le Festival d'Ambronay qui voit briller l'Ensemble Jupiter de Thomas Dunford et Lea Desandre dans Vivaldi.

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Ambronay

18 Sep 2020

L’Ensemble Jupiter et Lea Desandre enflamment Ambronay

By Augustin Javel

Froville

Mariana Florès et la Cappella Mediterranea au Festival de Froville

By Jean Landras, 03 June 2018

Le Festival de Froville vient d'accueillir quatre talentueux instrumentistes placés sous la direction de Leonardo García Alarcón. Leur prestation a constitué un véritable écrin pour la voix et la présence sur scène de la soprano Mariana Florès.

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Froville

03 Jun 2018

Mariana Florès et la Cappella Mediterranea au Festival de Froville

By Jean Landras

Lyon

Troublantes larmes virginales au pied de la croix : Vox Luminis à Lyon

By Beate Langenbruch, 10 October 2017

L’un de ces concerts où qualité musicale, expressivité, spatialité intelligente et sens aigu du texte s’intriquent à la perfection

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Lyon

10 Oct 2017

Troublantes larmes virginales au pied de la croix : Vox Luminis à Lyon

By Beate Langenbruch

Paris

Andreas Scholl charme la Salle Gaveau…

By Anne-Laure Faubert, 10 April 2015

La voix d'Andreas Scholl et le joueur de mandoline Avi Avital ont charmé la Salle Gaveau par la virtuosité d'un programme baroque.

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Paris

10 Apr 2015

Andreas Scholl charme la Salle Gaveau

By Anne-Laure Faubert