Both Bach and Catalan folksong serve as primary musical inspiration for Houses of Peace, Joshua Bornfield's homage to Pablo Casals. Its six-movement structure echoes Bach's G Major Cello Suite, its ...

Laurence Cummings is a superb Handelian conductor with a sure sense of style, pacing and narrative, and he fields an excellent team of young British singers. George Humphreys’s authoritative yet sweet ...

“Joshua” is a bit like one of those Technicolor Biblical films from the mid-20th century — a sweeping tale of conquest featuring a title hero laying waste to everyone and everything in his path.

Handel wrote something on the order of two dozen English-language oratorios, a veritable cornucopia of melodic invention and dramatic insight. And over the decades, Nicholas McGegan and the ...

Kenneth Tarver’s precisely articulated quick passages in ‘Haste, Israel haste’ are impressive, although elsewhere there are slight hints of strain. Tobias Berndt’s compassionate ‘Shall I in Mamre’s ...