As cellist Tormod Dalen explained in a short address to the audience, the instruments were faithful to the period, bearing mostly naked gut strings, but with the odd steel-wound one thrown in, as ...

Fortunately, soprano soloist Dorothee Mields stepped up with Bach’s Cantata BWV 199, giving us a rather more vocal, but no less Bach-centric evening of music to open this year’s Spitalfields Festival.

The final stages are under way of a major fundraising project to restore the mighty organ at Christ Church, Spitalfields, in east London. Built by the leading Georgian craftsman Richard Bridge, it's ...