William Byrd's forbidden music performed by candlelight at Sinfonia Smith Square – an immersive, spellbinding evening that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year marks the 400th anniversary of Orlando Gibbons’s death. Straddling the Renaissance and the Baroque, ...

The architecture and decorative arts of the late 19th century were greatly influenced by the Aesthetic Movement, which began in the 1870s. It was the beginning of an age of ornament and beauty for ...

For more than 30 years, English early-music ensemble Fretwork has dedicated itself to the repertoire of a single stringed instrument. The viol—also known as the viola da gamba—reached the height of ...

Carole Malakoff had never heard of Moorish fretworks when she and her husband, Bob, bought an 1871 Italianate-style house in Pittsburgh. But ever since they found an 11-foot section of the delicate ...

However, This Year's Midnight, performed in near-darkness, and billed as a meditation of songs, poetry and instrumental music for the winter solstice, is more ambitious and ranges more widely across ...

It’s a gorgeous work of homage – a “ritualised memory piece” – to a composer Muhly (pictured below) clearly reveres, finding correlations and correspondences between Gibbons’ writing and Muhly’s own ...

It’s probably musical heresy to suggest it, but arguably, the instrumental works of John Dowland and Johann Strauss II share a common feature: dancing. Indubitably, unlike a Viennese waltz, a galliard ...