“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

There’s plenty of George Frideric Handel’s 1742 “Messiah” to go around in Seattle this December. Pacific MusicWorks and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra have scheduled back-to-back programs of Handel ...

Modern attempts to update classical masterpieces are in an age-old tradition – and the music has always survived Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include ...

But how would a selection of contemporary composers (all of whom, pleasingly were in the hall) going to approach their task of re-intepretation? With Harry Christophers, one of the greatest modern ...