“Come now with gladness” was the opening chorus line from the Benson Choral Society’s performance of J S Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas feast days of 1734. There was definite ...

Tim Luckhurst has received research funding from News UK and Ireland Ltd. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Society of Editors and the Free Speech Union. Eighty years ago ...

Join Aedín for her annual, not to be missed, seasonal soundtrack of songs and festive film favourites. From Willy Wonka to It's a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz to White Christmas, Elf to ET and ...

Eighty years ago, Britain celebrated its first peacetime Christmas since 1938. It was a time of hope indeed, but a look through newspaper archives reveals a complex picture. Christmas 1945 was an ...

Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois were the perfectly matched vocal soloists as James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a ferociously committed performance of his own ...

At BBC Music Magazine we’re rather fond of Christmas… for the fizz and food, family and fun. But especially, of course, for the music. Even the most withering Scrooge must admit that festive hymns and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Like a discerningly selected festive table, The Song Company’s, Hark!, devised by Artistic Directors Amy Moore and Jessica O’Donoghue, ...

Featuring a choir, soloists, and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, SC Bach is set to present its namesake's Christmas masterwork in full over the course of two performances at Furman University ...

One of the world’s leading choral conductors will lead two ensembles in a seasonal performance of a timeless masterpiece. Stephen Layton, who lives in Great Ellingham, will conduct the choir Polyphony ...