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

We are delighted to announce that Katherine Spencer has been appointed as our new principal clarinet.

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.

Find out how we're powering up our mentoring programme with support from F1 legend Ron Dennis’ charity.

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.

We're thrilled to welcome our new cohort of six singers joining our Rising Stars of the Enlightenment scheme.