"Because the music's quality is very ambient and the music is kind of objective, it allows the listener to project whatever they need onto it. So, I won't say it's a blank canvas, but it does give ...

In a music room on the slopes of Nazareth on a sweltering late-June afternoon in Galilee, the violinist Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar coaches a group of young musicians through a Dvořák piano quintet. After ...

An extraordinarily moving Bach passion contained intensity, radiance and, from Nick Pritchard, the finest live account of the Evangelist this critic has heard Stephen Layton’s annual performance of ...

The Polyphony Foundation-an organization dedicated to using the power of classical music to bridge the divide between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel-will host performances by four young Arab ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. GRAMMY-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony today announced the release of ...

There are dozens (and frankly probably hundreds) of excellent recordings in the catalogue that revolve around two staple subjects: romantic love and religious devotion. But for their latest album, New ...

Yet I came away from the Bach reflecting that, four decades or so back, period-conscious Baroque music-making of this quality and commitment would still have struck most listeners as a revolution – ...

Les Arts Florissants and Amala Dianor Company present the Passion story through a challenging fusion of music and dance. An empty stage with just a raised platform at the back conjured not only the ...

The Ryedale Festival just keeps on offering us perfection in terms of setting and performers, and this concert in Ampleforth Abbey featuring the a capella ensemble VOCES8, was the finest of the lot.

Layton (pictured below), however, rung unexpected changes by giving us Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Oratorio intercut with another festive favourite: Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, performed after the first ...

On Good Friday at London’s St John’s Smith Square, Stephen Layton will conduct Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach’s St John Passion. These Polyphony performances of the ...