We take a look beneath the tumultuous surface of Haydn's Symphony No. 44 and the so-called 'Nelson' Mass.

10 September marked Henry Purcell’s birthday (roughly). So we've decided to celebrate this greatest of English composers with a playlist.

Katharina Spreckelsen explains why we've put together a composer and a poet who live over a hundred years apart.

Ian Bostridge introduces the very personal selection of arias for our Handel Around the World concert.

We explore how travel may have inspired a composer more usually renowned for staying at home.

In her second blog, Joanna Wyld puts together the pieces of the jigsaw that were to become the magnificent Mass in B Minor we know today.

In a blog taken from the notes to accompany his 2013 recording of the Mass in B Minor, Václav Luks writes about how he sought to strip away decades and centuries of performance traditions to rediscover the work for himself.

How we chose the music for our 2023/24 season. More importantly, how do we decide what order to put it in?

Find out more about Cristobal de Morales, whose motets we will be exploring in our 2023/24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything.

We look through the history of the opera that critics called "the best in every way" of Gilbert & Sullivan.