Crowds in Dublin city centre were treated to a rendition of Handel’s Messiah on the 284th anniversary of its first ever ...

Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers. Every year, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back ...

Handel's Messiah premiere in Dublin, Apollo 13 space crisis, Edict of Nantes, and more historical events shaping culture and science.

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Misha Glenny and guests discuss Handel's great sacred oratorio from 1742, his collaboration with librettist Charles Jennens, and the first performances in Dublin and then London. Show more Misha ...

A choir featuring 70 voices from West and South Yorkshire will give its first performance of the year in Dewsbury this ...

The Oratorio Society of New York has announced the winners of the 49th Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition. The finals ...

The Royal Choral Society presents Puccini at the Palace at London’s Alexandra Palace – an unforgettable night of romance, ...

The variety of Machaut's output - chansons, masses, lais, and more - are part of this morning's playlist, alongside music of a very famous Dublin premiere about three and a half centuries later - ...

When Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation premiered in 1798, the excitement was so intense that authorities reportedly had to ...

The Post-Standard called G. Burton Harbison "one of the brightest stars in the musical firmament of Syracuse." ...

A contrasting and expanded variety of classical music concerts features prominently in the upcoming itinerary of events of ...