London Mozart Players: Summer Classics
If there’s one work that paints a simple and serene picture of summer, it’s Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Having been voted the number one choice in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame nine times in recent years, it’s a work that is…
London Mozart Players: Summer Classics
If this is your first experience of the world of Baroque music you can do no better than Bach’s famous ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos, or possibly his most popular orchestral work the Double Violin Concerto with its sublime slow movement. But Vivaldi’s The Four…
London Mozart Players: The Lark Ascending
If there’s one work that paints a simple and serene picture of summer, it’s Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Having been voted the number one choice in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame nine times in recent years, it’s a work that is…
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
The London Chorus brings a fresh, yet historically accurate perspective to one of Rossini’s ‘Sins of Old Age’, in a performance of his much-loved mass. The work was originally scored for Pleyel double piano and harmonium, as it was intended to be…
Best of Vivaldi and Handel
Founded by cellist Dietrich Bethge in 1998 from London’s leading musicians, London Octave aims to approach the baroque and classical repertoire in a fresh and energetic manner, often without a conductor. Through its regular London season at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the South Bank…
St Martin’s Voices in Concert: All Saints Church, Sheepy Magna
The night before lockdown in March 2020, members of St Martin’s Voices gathered in a dimly lit St Martin-in-the-Fields for one final time to record the music for a service led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, broadcast to the nation on the…
A Garden of Good and Evil
The San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra brings to the forefront of its programming the creation and presentation of both old and new music, a hallmark of the ensemble’s versatility. This programme, full of contrast, contradiction, confrontation and a rich sense of internal…
The King’s Singers: Songbirds
The natural beauty of birds and birdsong has long provided an inspiration for composers and artists of all kinds. Songbirds combines music inspired by our favourite feathered friends, spanning the last 500 years, with songs by modern-day ‘songbirds’ – singers and songwriters…
Vladimir Waltham plays Bach Cello Suites
Multi-faceted musician Vladimir Waltham has been praised by Gramophone magazine for his ‘luminous tone,’ and plays a beautiful 18th-century cello by Nicolò Gagliano. For today’s concert he’s put together a lovely programme centred on two of Bach’s most serene solo cello suites,…
