Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Bach’s Goldberg Variations contain infinities. The Teyber String Trio finds their own, utterly individual path into one of music’s most enduring – and fascinating – masterworks. A wager? A cure for insomnia? Or nothing less than a musical attempt to give order…

Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière plays Debussy, Britten and Franck: sophistication, sensuality and melodies that smoulder. When Victor Julien-Laferrière became the first cellist ever to win Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017, critics were intoxicated by his “warm, luminous and pure tone, his clarity,…

Music, the cosmos and a dialogue of cultures, as pianist Shani Diluka pairs Beethoven sonatas with haunting Indian ragas. Music might not be a universal language, but it’s an art in which different cultures can find points of contact and contrast, enriching…

Handel as you’ve never heard him: a genre-spanning, continent-crossing cosmopolitan, brought vividly to life by The Assembled Company. Born in Germany, trained in Italy, and British by choice, George Frideric Handel was nothing if not cosmopolitan, and yet his music was powerfully…

Italian music, English style – La Serenissima celebrates the Italian musicians who shaped the English baroque, and the continental composers who wrote with an English accent. English music has never been an island. In the baroque era, the musical traffic between Britain…

Programme Vivaldi – Cello Concerto in B minor Bach – Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F Vivaldi – Double Violin Concerto in A minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Performers The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of London…

Programme Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins and Cello in D minor Mozart – Divertimento No 1 in D Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Performers The Baroque…

Programme Vivaldi – Cello concerto in C minor Bach – “Air” on a G string Handel – Water Music Suite in G Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Handel – Concerto Grosso in Bb Vivaldi – “Autumn and Winter” from The Four…

Programme Handel – Arrival of The Queen of Sheba Bach – Air ‘on the G String’ Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 1 in D Pachelbel – Canon in D Purcell – Chaconne Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor Vivaldi…