Messiah – The Sixteen

Programme Handel – Messiah  Performers The Sixteen Harry Christophers Conductor Hilary Cronin soprano Hugh Cutting countertenor Nick Pritchard tenor James Newby baritone Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah is infinitely more than just a British seasonal fixture – and there’s more than one way to perform it, too. In…

Programme Spiritual, arr. Simpson – True Religion  Spiritual, arr. Burton – Great Getting Up Morning  Spiritual arr. Halloran – Witness  Richard Smallwood – Total Praise  Spiritual, arr. Dawon – Soon Ah Will Be Done Spiritual arr. Work – Rocking Jerusalem  Spiritual, arr…

Mozart with his imagination on fire, and Haydn at the top of his game. Classical sunshine on a January night from John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. Some works of art defy words. Caught out at short notice, Mozart wrote…

All the splendour and majesty of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio – performed over two nights by the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner.  Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage – Celebrate, rejoice, rise up and praise these days! Johann Sebastian…

All the splendour and majesty of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio – performed over two nights by the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner.  Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage – Celebrate, rejoice, rise up and praise these days! Johann Sebastian…

Programme Maya Youssef, ‘Queen of the Qanun’ plays music from her latest album Finding Home, with her 12-piece ensemble. The qanun (a 78-stringed plucked instrument from the Middle East) is at the heart of Maya’s evocative soundworld, which is infused with a…

Hail, Mary! A Górecki premiere and a newly-commissioned mass are at the heart of The Gesualdo Six’s exploration of Polish music’s very special relationship with the Mother of God. For many Polish Catholics, the Virgin Mary is revered as the eternal Queen…

Soul music from the heart of a vanished Russia, as Nigel Short and Tenebrae perform Rachmaninoff’s Vespers.  Passionate, serene, and rooted in a deep and heartfelt faith, Sergei Rachmaninoff said that he loved his Vespers above all his other works. Written as…

Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir unlocks a treasure-house of Polish sacred music in this ravishing final concert of the 2022 Joy and Devotion festival. Drawn from Britain’s very finest young choral singers, The Rodolfus Choir is a choir with a striking difference; an…