Wake up! This was the resounding message of the eighth concert in Sydney Philharmonia's Immortal Bach series, which, by the end of the year, will have surveyed a large chunk of Bach's cantatas. Paul ...

After inaugurating this year’s festival with Brahms’s “German Requiem,” the superlative Berlin Radio Choir, conducted by Gijs Leenaars, stays on in New York for one more concert. Its title comes from ...

Universalism and authenticity make competing claims on Bach's liturgical cantatas. Why perform them in the concert hall? Because they contain great music, is the universalist claim (and they do). But ...

At the risk of stating the obvious, the reviewer's task is normally to comment on the quality of a performance, in this case the playing of music. So much is straightforward, if subjective. The task ...