B’Rock joins forces with Stefan Steinemann and the Augsburger Domsingknaben, with the choir’s distinctive sound at the heart of this St John Passion

Lying in the dark, somewhere between wakefulness and half-sleep, your bearings grow hazy and your senses become heightened: let the music carry you away into the night.

From Handel's famous Water Music suites to the most luminous recorder concertos of the 18th century, via Johann Helmich Roman's splendid Swedish music, this is an evening where the brilliance of the orchestra, the virtuosity and the poetry of the flute respond to each other with brio.

Noble polyphony as consolation in a world at war, with compositions with field recordings created by Inne Eysermans and Katherina Lindekens.

Can music tell a story? Trust Baroque heroes such as Vivaldi, Telemann and Biber. Birds, wind, rain, snow and even a battle all speak through music in a dazzling play of sound and imagination.

In the early morning, something rustles… a lover creeps quietly home after an intense night. In the Middle Ages, this bittersweet farewell inspired entire genres of song.

B'Rock Orchestra opens the 56th edition of the Varaždin Baroque Evenings with music from three worlds that helped shape 18th-century Europe. From Pergolesi’s Naples, via Vivaldi’s bustling Venice, to Benda’s refined court life in Berlin, a thread runs through which religious expression, urban energy and court culture constantly merge.

In a darkly theatrical, sensorially-overwhelming whole, Aïda Gabriels mixes Baroque splendour with soundscapes and pop intermezzos. Will you join us at the banquet table, or will you watch from the sidelines as the main characters struggle with their craving for fulfilment?

The best of Bach’s Baroque prowess, in a carefully constructed structure in which every page seems to look back on a lifetime of composition.

A Bach masterpiece in a new guise with top-class local and international musicians from jazz and classical.