
BBC Singers: Duruflé’s Requiem
Maurice Duruflé’s beautiful Requiem – one of the best-loved of 20th century choral masterpieces – performed live by the BBC Singers under conductor Lionel Sow. Imagine a music that seems to exist outside of time. Deep tranquillity and profound emotion fuse to…

Tenebrae: Path of Miracles
An unforgettable 21st-century classic: an evocative choral and spiritual journey inspired by the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. The road to Santiago del Compostela is one of the world’s great pilgrimage routes; it’s also a journey through time and the spirit,…

Éva Fahidi & Benjamin Appl: I know for certain that I’ll see you again
Baritone Benjamin Appl joins writer and Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi for a musical journey reflecting on life, loss and hope in words and song. “Suddenly, I realized that I was completely alone, and had no one else in this world…”. A moving…

SANSARA: Music of Sanctuary and Solidarity with United Strings of Europe
Award-winning vocal collective SANSARA join forces with the acclaimed United Strings of Europe and Syrian oud player Basel Saleh to present a powerful sequence of choral and instrumental music on the timely and enduring themes of sanctuary, solidarity and displaced peoples. With…

Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Bach’s Goldberg Variations contain infinities. The Teyber String Trio finds their own, utterly individual path into one of music’s most enduring – and fascinating – masterworks. A wager? A cure for insomnia? Or nothing less than a musical attempt to give order…

Romantic Cello: Victor Julien-Laferrière & Jean-Frédéric Neuburger play Franck and Debussy
Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière plays Debussy, Britten and Franck: sophistication, sensuality and melodies that smoulder. When Victor Julien-Laferrière became the first cellist ever to win Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017, critics were intoxicated by his “warm, luminous and pure tone, his clarity,…

Cosmos – Shani Diluka plays Beethoven & Indian Ragas
Music, the cosmos and a dialogue of cultures, as pianist Shani Diluka pairs Beethoven sonatas with haunting Indian ragas. Music might not be a universal language, but it’s an art in which different cultures can find points of contact and contrast, enriching…

Handel the Cosmopolitan
Handel as you’ve never heard him: a genre-spanning, continent-crossing cosmopolitan, brought vividly to life by The Assembled Company. Born in Germany, trained in Italy, and British by choice, George Frideric Handel was nothing if not cosmopolitan, and yet his music was powerfully…

La Serenissima: An Englishman Abroad
Italian music, English style – La Serenissima celebrates the Italian musicians who shaped the English baroque, and the continental composers who wrote with an English accent. English music has never been an island. In the baroque era, the musical traffic between Britain…