Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...

"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...

In the summer of 1717 George Frideric Handel composed music to keep the King of England entertained on his boat trip down the River Thames. We now call that music Handel’s “Water Music,” and the ...

Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers.

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

Lucille Kincaid shares stories of famous classical composers who found themselves in funny, sticky, or interesting situations ...

The London Handel Festival has been an important part of the classical music calendar for some 40 years, but I felt it was not recognised enough outside the world of Handelian cognoscenti, and we ...

How do I know? Because there he was, as we all suspected he would be because of tight security, enjoying among other things a more relaxed performance of "Zadok the Priest" than the splendid one a ...