MusicaNova Orchestra will present BAROQUE TO THE FUTURE, a dynamic concert that transforms Baroque era inspiration into bold ...

Alastair Stout is always looking to the dramatic. Minister of music at Rutland’s Grace Congregational Church since 2017, he is introducing this year’s “Messiah” performances with John Tavener’s “God ...

Kristin Scott Thomas talks about playing Mrs Danvers in Rebecca Alice Oswald's Weather Anthology, What a Carve Up!, Memoir writing Could being visually impaired enhance an artist’s work? Dame Judi ...

His wide-ranging curiosity about virtually everything, paired with the insights of an author and expressive skill of a top musical artist put Steven Isserlis in a category all by himself. He creates ...

Steven Isserlis is disarmingly direct. Like Jim Carrey’s character in the film Liar Liar, it’s as if he seems compelled to say just what he thinks. There’s no sense of evasion, misdirection or padding ...

Star cellist Guy Johnston joins Britten Sinfonia in a programme of powerful music by Tavener, Beethoven and Bartók. The cello’s singing qualities are to the fore in John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil, ...

Star cellist Guy Johnston joins Britten Sinfonia in a programme of powerful music by Tavener, Beethoven and Bartók. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge (1826) – heard tonight in the arrangement for ...

Since John Tavener's passing, there have been several concerts dedicated to the composer's work, and this was not the first to have offered a première of one of his compositions. This concert at the ...

Over the centuries, religious choral and liturgical music has had many composers and practitioners, and the current Cambridge Music Festival on Friday evening was remembering the tenth anniversary of ...

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, looms large in the nation’s perception of choral music: it is from there that the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has been broadcast – in one way or ...

Cambridge Music Festival’s autumn concert series has programmed a special tribute to Sir John Tavener at King’s College Chapel on the 10th anniversary of his death. The concert, which will be ...

JOHN TAVENER’S The Protecting Veil, written for cello and string orchestra and completed in 1987, was in many ways his breakthrough seminal work. Premiered at the BBC Proms in 1989 with cellist Steven ...