The programme was titled “Christmas with JS Bach” but could equally have been called “Blackadder Goes Forth” for the determination to get full value out of the presence of legendary natural trumpeter ...

Make the season bright with the brilliance of Baroque music performed by the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus in the beautiful and intimate setting of NEC’s Jordan Hall on Thursday, Dec ...

It could all be done in a single sitting – the whole is still shorter than Handel's Messiah – but on the London leg of their latest European tour, Gardiner and Co kept us waiting in rapt anticipation ...