Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Although Lisa Batiashvili is pictured on the cover (and in numerous glamorous photos through the booklet) this Bach ...

Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...

La Follia's director Keith Womer performs concertos for organ and strings on the historic 1862 Holbrook Organ, with the La Follia string ensemble. The concert features concertos by Handel, Mozart, ...

Prepare to feel completely inadequate: this string quartet are all aged between 6 and 10 years old, and they can knock out a mean Bach concerto. Ah, the mature and refined work of J.S. Bach. Something ...

When I wrote about Jordi Savall's recording of Bach's Orchestral Suites I noted that although the performances were not without their rough edges I nevertheless found myself deriving plenty of ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment do that extremely well. The expertise of their techniques is unexceptionable, and even without violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, who was to have taken a leading role ...

Within any classical musical genre, there are two sorts of piece. There are the thousands of routine works which have vanished completely. And there are the few dozens which soar above routine, and ...