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Three meditations on death and mourning with the RSNO in Edinburgh
Mozart's Requiem packs in the crowd, but it's Berg's Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann that really finds the spiritual depth.
Bach to basics: The AAM performs the St Matthew Passion
A claim was made not to authenticity, but merely to “a chance to hear the work anew”.
Fairy style for the Fairest Isle: King Arthur at Temple Church
A concert performance of a Purcell semi-opera can never fully succeed, but compromise is worth it, if it enables us to hear a significant part of a major composer's output.
Good tidings of great joy from the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall
Handel's Christmas classic gets a fresh lick of paint from John Butt and colleagues.
Purcell “Songes & Ayres” from the Lammermuir Festival
Scotland's Dunedin Consort offers a radiant program of Purcell and his peers.
The Gabrielis shine in Purcell's confusing King Arthur
King Arthur is an opera without a plot and, in musical terms at least, Arthur without the King.