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.

Nicholas Kenyon compares the musical journeys of Carl Philip Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach.

Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. We investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig.

We explore the mysteries surrounding Bach's Brandenburg Concertos including its uncertain origin and unusual instrumentation showcasing Bach's compositional ingenuity, with each concerto offering unique and unprecedented musical challenges.

Laura Tunbridge, Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and author of Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces (Viking, 2020), explores Beethoven's Eroica symphony and Violin Concerto.