BBC Singers: Herbert Howells – A Celebration

“From the earth another song shall rise / to meet your own in Heaven’s long delight”. Join presenter Ed Balls, conductor Nicholas Chalmers, organist Ashley Grote and the BBC Singers for an evening of words and music revealing the full depth, power…

Part of the Choral Discovery Concerts series – inviting you to discover some lesser known but utterly beautiful choral music in short concerts with St Martin’s Voices.     In this beautiful hour-long concert, St Martin’s Voices present a selection of uplifting choral…

Join St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble and acclaimed pianist Adam Johnson for a captivating evening of music by Mozart, including the stirring Piano Concerto in D minor, one of his most glorious operatic overtures, and the timelessly elegant Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Programme Mozart…

May eternal light shine…as the nights draw in, The Carice Singers present an evening of music that seems to glow from within. Ligeti’s stunning Lux Aeterna is a true classic (you might recognise it from 2001: A Space Odyssey), and a magnificent…

The handpicked musicians of the Dunedin Consort give a uniquely intimate – and intensely dramatic – performance of Bach’s St John Passion. “Ah, my soul where will you go at last? Where shall I find relief?”. For Johann Sebastian Bach, the story…

Chamber choir Ex Cathedra presents a candlelit sequence of seasonal music: some old, some new, but all utterly enchanting in the atmospheric surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields. In the deep, still darkness of St Martin-in-the-Fields, only candles pierce the winter gloom. And then,…

Joy, melancholy or reason: which is best? There’s only one way to find out in this performance of Handel’s extraordinary L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. “Dissolve me into ecstasies / And bring all Heav’n before mine eyes!” We all know how…

The BBC New Generation Artists scheme has a reputation for spotting emerging talent, but even so, the Consone Quartet is something special – the very first string quartet on the scheme to play on period instruments, using the techniques and instruments of…

Baroque music never stood still. Musicians travelled, and inspirations sped across 18th century Europe with all the speed of a Vivaldi concerto. But you don’t need to tell that to Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima – the flamboyant British ensemble that takes…