Georgian Concert Society: Luisa Morales and Carole Cerasi
Works for harpsichord duet with a Spanish flavour, originally dedicated to Infante Gabriel of Borbon (1752 – 1788)
Mozart and Tchaikovsky at the Barbican
An enjoyable and instructive evening.
Bach Players – The Food of Love: Music for Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems
An enlightening performance of music by Purcell, Weldon and Locke, originally intended to accompany Restoration productions of Shakespeare.
La Clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne
Superb singing lifts a problem-beset production.
Mozart’s Lucio Silla at the Buxton Festival
An opera worth reviving.
Garsington Opera’s Semele
Handel's brilliance wins out despite some missteps.
The Georgian Concert Society: Jonathan Manson and Trevor Pinnock
An electric and fluent performance of works by J.S. Bach, Louis Couperin, Marin Marais and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Looking at and Listening to the ‘Land without Music’
An exhibition and concert that encourage us to look beyond eighteenth-century England's reputation for 'unmusicality'.
W. A. Mozart: The First Commandment (Classical Opera)
A dedicated performance of a rarely heard work.
Boxwood & Brass: The Harmonie in Beethoven’s Vienna
An enjoyable selection of the familiar and the new.