It offered three Baroque masterworks written by two up-and-coming composers at or around the age of 22: Bach’s Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, sandwiched between Handel’s Donna, che in ciel ...

Last night the Monteverdi Choir numbered 30 – not huge by Royal Albert Hall standards – but the joyfully exultant music that they made filled the dome with a boundless grandeur. Sir John Eliot ...