This time of year Handel’s classic “Messiah” fills audiences with joy in churches and venues across Metro Detroit, as much a part of local traditions as Christmas plays and holiday pop concerts. But ...

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On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 8:00 p.m., the American Classical Orchestra, "the nation's premier orchestra dedicated to period instrument performance (Vulture)," presents a holiday program featuring ...

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 ...

Georg Friedrich HandelL’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il ModeratoGabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (director), Signum Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato from 1740 is not another ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps a period of forced introspection is a positive thing if it helps clarify what is truly important and what isn’t. For musicians, whose work is by definition a communal event, it was a strange ...

The Brook Street Band, the stylish British early-music ensemble that takes its name from Handel’s old stomping grounds, has already given us fine recordings of the composer’s two collections of trio ...

Amazon mp3: $20 | Amazon CD: ~$26 | ArkivMusic: $32 | Qobuz download: £12 - 17.5 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $20 A quick check reveals that Fabio Biondi’s recording of Handel’s penultimate opera Imeneo is ...

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.