“Too much of a good thing is wonderful,” Mae West said. Even I wasn’t around when West immortalized that line in 1932. Even so, it’s a motto of mine, for better or for worse – be it pizza, Gatorade or ...

Handel's eight keyboard suites, which he published himself in 1720, don't get a lot of attention these days. Pianist Lisa Smirnova studied these colorful pieces for five years before launching into ...

Is London getting enough Handel opera? We've just had Orlando at Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Coliseum, Ariodante at the Barbican, and the London Handel Festival's Poro, Re del'Indie. In the next ...

“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

In the past few days, the story about my attempt to crowdsurf during a performance of Handel's Messiah in Bristol has gone viral. As a dual US/UK citizen who practises science, art, and cultural ...

It being Easter, it seems entirely appropriate that the ­spotlight should fall on Handel's Messiah. Though it's firmly established in the musical mind as being part and parcel of the Christmas ...

But how would a selection of contemporary composers (all of whom, pleasingly were in the hall) going to approach their task of re-intepretation? With Harry Christophers, one of the greatest modern ...

The latest recording from Pygmalion, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” and works written for Anne-Sophie Mutter are among our selections. At Carnegie Hall, the English Concert made a case for ...

This was the best concert yet in the Globe’s series of candle-lit, intimate recitals – and that’s saying something given the overall standard. This time, Trevor Pinnock introduced works by Handel and ...

Handel, who is recognised throughout the world for the composition, wrote personally to Charles Jennens calling the piece “your Messiah”. According to the handwritten letters, he credited the ...