The practice of incorporating the story of Christ's Passion within the services of Holy Week goes back many hundreds of years.

Writer Jessica Duchen looks at the place of Beethoven's piano concertos in his creative life.

How well do we know Camille Saint-Saëns?

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.