Heinrich Biber

Perhaps the last thing one expects from this extraordinary disc is to find that it starts with the chimes of Big Ben played on the sheng, in a piece derived from one of Telemann’s a century before that bell tolled…

Hasse, arr. Handel

These days the idea of an artistic director who was also a composer presenting an opera by a contemporary the year after its first production would be thought of as a co-production…

Silk Baroque

Perhaps the last thing one expects from this extraordinary disc is to find that it starts with the chimes of Big Ben played on the sheng, in a piece derived from one of Telemann’s a century before that bell tolled…