No musical celebration of London would be complete without Handel, whose work reflects, consciously or otherwise, the pleasures and politics of the capital in its 18th-century glory days. For the ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Couperin’s Troisième leçon de ténèbres by Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet.

As Le Concert Spirituel gears up for its 40th anniversary, David Vickers hears from Hervé Niquet about inquisitive digging ...

Here’s one more thing to blame on the French Revolution: the demise of the Concert Spirituel. Founded in Paris in 1725, the Concert Spirituel (“sacred concert”) was one of the first public concert ...

Ernest: “You are incorrigible. But, seriously speaking, who needs art criticism? If [an artist’s] work is easy to understand, no explanation is necessary ” Gilbert: “And if his work is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past few decades there has been an impressive rise in the number of French period-instrument ensembles ...

Leader Alice Piérot directed from the violin, but really the members of the group – standing apart from the cellos and theorbo – were in constant communication with each other, the beat of a baton ...

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) commences its 50th Anniversary Season with Le Concert Spirituel: Baroque Orchestral Suites on September 28, 2019 at 7:30pm at Christ Church Cathedral. Inspired by the ...

Hervé Niquet's ensemble found exquisite tenderness, and sidestepped sentimentality, in an evening of French gems at Wigmore Hall Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

Violinist Jeanne Lamon is with the Victoria Baroque Players on Friday. What: Victoria Baroque Players: Grand Orchestral Suites When/where: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Church of St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra ...

French Baroque, for most people, means Versailles and the complexities, aesthetic and political, of music composed for the Bourbon monarchy. There was far more to it, of course, than entertainment for ...