Features
Discover the fascinating world of Baroque & Early Music through artist interviews, festival reviews, playlists, album features, and expert insights.
Owain Park: Half a dozen of one
Ten years on from their Cambridge debut, The Gesualdo Six continue to redefine choral performance through imagination and collaboration.
The infinite variety of Handel’s ‘Messiah’
Few works in Western music have proved as infinitely adaptable, resilient, and continually renewed as George Frideric Handel’s ‘Messiah’ oratorio.
Bellot Ensemble | Monteverdi: ‘Oblivion soave’
Tenor Kieran White, joined by Daniel Murphy on theorbo, performs Arnalta’s aria, ‘Oblivion soave’ from Monteverdi's ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’.
Playlist: Jane Austen at 250
Our latest playlist celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with music used in TV adaptations and music she would have played herself.
Senses, scores and square pianos
Ahead of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday on 16 December this year, Simon Mundy caught up with performers on their respective Austen-inspired projects.
In conversation: Joseph Lowe
Continuo catches up with violinist and violist Joseph Lowe to talk about his journey into Early Music and his recent video recording with the Lowe Ensemble.
News
Handpicked news stories from the world of Baroque & Early Music.
Bellot Ensemble unveils debut album: ‘Cupid’s Ground Bass’
The Bellot Ensemble’s debut album of 17th-century Italian love songs and rare instrumental works is given an immersive London launch.
Two newly attributed organ works added to Bach Catalogue
BWV1178 and 1179 have been officially sanctioned as works by JS Bach after years of rigorous scholarship.
Festivals
Established and emerging artists are presenting inspiring programmes in festivals and concert series across the UK.
York Early Music Christmas Festival
The Festival was created in 1997 to introduce audiences to the immense wealth of music associated with Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, from the Medieval to the Baroque, intertwined with the sagas, stories and tales of the north.
The Georgian Concert Society
The GCS promotes a series of six historically informed performances of the highest standard on period instruments each year in Edinburgh.
Colchester Early Music
Mostly Medieval and Renaissance concerts on Sunday afternoons at St Andrew's Church in Marks Tey, showcasing small groups.
What's On
Explore period-instrument performances of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, classical and new music, and choral & vocal repertoire.
Mon, 8 December 2025
Online
9:00am
£14 (plus VAT)
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