My knowledge of classical music was mostly derived from Saturday morning cartoons, until I became a mom and discovered classical music packaged for kids. In the Baby Einstein years, those soothing ...

No work of western classical music is more closely associated with the Christmas season than German-born composer George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, which premiered in 1742. This was in the wake of ...

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 ...

Both Masaaki Suzuki and the late lamented Sir Stephen Cleobury have recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion before. I struggled to choose between these two new versions, so thought it best to include both.

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society is one of the oldest continuously running performing arts organizations in the country. To celebrate its bicentennial this season, the group made a new recording of a ...

Slimmed-down Brahms is more common than it used to be, and geeks will probably cherish a pioneering set recorded in the 1990s by Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Robin ...

There are glorious and nuanced performances in a new recording of this lesser-known Handel opera, courtesy of Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company It’s odd that Handel’s Amadigi isn’t better ...

‘I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself.’ George Frideric Handel This album is part of 1000 Years of Classical Music – a series of 100 volumes charting the history of ...

Handel's eight keyboard suites, which he published himself in 1720, don't get a lot of attention these days. Pianist Lisa Smirnova studied these colorful pieces for five years before launching into ...

The National Youth Choir of Great Britain have been busy commissioning, while Sandrine Piau soars on Enchantresses Despite the no-choral-singing strictures of lockdown, the National Youth Choir of ...