To open our 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air from Bach's ...

The 20-member orchestra from London has been a leader in period instrument performance since their founding in 1973. Giuliano Carmignola leads a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 29. And Fred Child ...

The Barbican, both in its size and sound, is not entirely friendly to this kind of performance, and the decision to place the eight singers behind the band, and thus further from the audience, ...

Refiner's Fire celebrates one of the world's pioneering period-instrument ensembles, and one of the most successful recording partnerships The music critic and regular Gramophone contributor Richard ...