If Bach’s your Passion, take your pick from these

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Songs of Freedom; Tallis Scholars; Emilia Martensson; Rob McGlade; Monteverdi

Grave misgivings

Hallelujah! Join the chorus with the Fleet Singers

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Dianne Reeves; National Youth Jazz Orchestra; folk collection; celebrating angels; Bach at St Pancras Church

From the House of the Dead – an opera of redemption in glorious Janáček style

Jazz Heroes are back at The Blue Posts

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Spring concerts; London Medical Orchestra; devotional music; Foundling Anthem; Leonard Bernstein

In search of Schumann: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the LSO in an exploration of the composer’s works

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Semiramide; Michael Tippett; Jelly Roll Morton; piano recital at Emmanuel Church; Flight at the Royal Academy of Music

Handel’s oratorio heralds the spring concert season

Women’s works that were rarely done

It may be freezing cold but Spring concerts are in the air

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Carmen on screen; Martin Hathaway; Eddie Parker at the Con Cellar Bar; pianist Masayuki Tayama

The fairies are tutu lovely!

Sorrowful mysteries at St Dominic’s: second of three ‘Rosary Sonata’ concert

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: LSO Family Concert; jazz double bill at Map Cafe; La Boheme live from the Met; violin making; Songhaven at City Farm

Carmen steps out of character in a new Royal Opera House staging of Bizet’s much-loved opera

English Touring Opera’s season at Hackney Empire takes off with Rossini

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Bach Magnificat; Marie Curie fundraiser; cellists Gemma Rosefield and Steven Isserlis; Jazz from the early 1900s; Jazz jam