No musical celebration of London would be complete without Handel, whose work reflects, consciously or otherwise, the pleasures and politics of the capital in its 18th-century glory days. For the ...

As cellist Tormod Dalen explained in a short address to the audience, the instruments were faithful to the period, bearing mostly naked gut strings, but with the odd steel-wound one thrown in, as ...

Le Concert Spirituel est aujourd'hui l'un des plus prestigieux orchestres baroques français, invité chaque année au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris et au Château de Versailles, mais également dans ...

Striggio’s mass, lost for 400 years, was the centrepiece of this imaginative concert of 16th- and 17th-century music that possibly worked best for radio listeners Court composers working for the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past few decades there has been an impressive rise in the number of French period-instrument ensembles ...

Despite a perverse treatment of Zadok the Priest, Hervé Niquet and his ensemble showed both originality and grace Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

Here’s one more thing to blame on the French Revolution: the demise of the Concert Spirituel. Founded in Paris in 1725, the Concert Spirituel (“sacred concert”) was one of the first public concert ...

Ernest: “You are incorrigible. But, seriously speaking, who needs art criticism? If [an artist’s] work is easy to understand, no explanation is necessary ” Gilbert: “And if his work is ...

As Le Concert Spirituel gears up for its 40th anniversary, David Vickers hears from Hervé Niquet about inquisitive digging into eclectic repertoires, and finding new approaches On a rainy Sunday ...

Violinist Jeanne Lamon is with the Victoria Baroque Players on Friday. What: Victoria Baroque Players: Grand Orchestral Suites When/where: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Church of St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra ...

Leader Alice Piérot directed from the violin, but really the members of the group – standing apart from the cellos and theorbo – were in constant communication with each other, the beat of a baton ...