Period: Baroque

La Venexiana turns Wigmore Hall into a palace somewhere in 17th-century Italy for a delightful lunchtime recital. 

Kicking off the ambitious summer dance festival at Jacob’s Pillow in the Berkshire highlands of Massachusetts, Paul Taylor Dance, whose roots at the Pillow date back to 1964, brought three blockbuster pieces. 

A very well balanced triple bill comprising two revivals and a world premiere gave ample opportunity for the dancers of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen to show off their versatility in Antwerp.

In a rare performance of Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, Jory Vinikour leads a small ensemble to the heights of religious art music.

The impressive Italian baritone features in a tour of Renaissance and Baroque Italian works with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Melbourne.

Hell holds no fury like a woman scorned, and it was certainly so in Greek mythology, celebrated in this outstanding Aldeburgh Festival performance by the Britten Sinfonia and Helen Charlston.

A late substitution turns a violinist-led showcase into a polished, orchestra-centred Bach Festival evening at Carnegie Hall. 

The Bach Akademie Australia celebrates the Leipzig Collegium Musicum of the Baroque era with an entertaining concert of familiar works and rarities, including the outright "silly" concerto of Telemann's The Frogs.