The programme was titled “Christmas with JS Bach” but could equally have been called “Blackadder Goes Forth” for the determination to get full value out of the presence of legendary natural trumpeter ...

Hereford Cathedral hosts J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on January 31, marking Geraint Bowen’s farewell concert as director of music.

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It could all be done in a single sitting – the whole is still shorter than Handel's Messiah – but on the London leg of their latest European tour, Gardiner and Co kept us waiting in rapt anticipation ...