Stephen Layton conducted both Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for this stirring afternoon, in which the opening movement sounded like a brewing storm. At first it sounded ...

Along with the singers of Polyphony, their performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Barbican flung an exultant riposte back at the self-contradictory bureaucrats of Arts Council England. Last ...

"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 ...

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 ...

We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

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 ...

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 ...

GRAMMY Award-nominated vocal ensemble New York Polyphony today releases its tenth commercial album, Sky of my Heart, on BIS Records. Now approaching its 20th anniversary season in 2025-2026, the ...

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.

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 ...