“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach.

3 Review: LAU NOAH AND LIOR – ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2025 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre The two cantatas chosen, BWV 106 and BWV 150, are considered early works, and they don't ...

Concluding Baroque Spring on Radio 3 and this week's Bristol Baroque Festival at St George's, the BBC Singers and period-instrument band St James's Baroque present a programme of music by the ...

In prepping for at least one of his upcoming Vancouver Bach Festival concerts, Thomas Hobbs faced an unusual challenge for a specialist in early music: how to differentiate his performance from the ...

These range from the utterly banal (a housewife doing the ironing – actually the countertenor soloist in drag) to the specific (a couple of men taking technical measurements of one of the rooms) to ...