My easter challenge

FOR almost 20 years now, choirmaster Gareth Malone has been bringing people together through the power of song. He’s done everything from inspiring schoolchildren to find their voices to forming choir

Gareth Malone opens up about touring, family and how he keeps cheery in difficult times

Radiant Dawn Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Tallis, James MacMillan, Owain Park et al Matilda Lloyd (trumpet); The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park Hyperion CDA 68465 69:35 mins This is an ingenious and moving

Zaytoun Songs by JS Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Sayed Darwish et al Haitham Haidar (tenor), Sylvain Bergeron (archlute), Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) et al Athene ATH 23027 51:44 mins In medieval Spain

Premières Symphonies Works by Bizet, Gounod and Saint-Saëns Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/Kazuki Yamada Alpha Classics ALPHA1149 89:27 mins (2CD) The most familiar of these three classically

The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) has opted to remove its production of Puccini’s Tosca from The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv next year after an open letter by RBO employees criticised the company for its