★★★☆☆In any art or sport, there’s room for both the popular and the unusual. Let’s turn to baroque music. Yet he is important enough for the Brook Street Band period-instrument ensemble to celebrate his music with a Muffat Festival. Granted, the crowd huddled in a chilly St John’s Smith Square was a fairly respectable size, but surely Muffat isn’t a money-spinner. Nor was there a particular anniversary to mark, though as luck would have it, the cellist and festival curator Tatty Theo explained, the opening concert fell on the 314th anniversary of Muffat’s death.

Source: The Times February 27, 2018 17:03 UTC