Events

Dunedin Consort: Reformations Cantata

Pulled from an Irish bog in 2006, the Faddan More Psalter serves as the inspiration for a new cantata from David Fennessy that uses similar orchestration to the unusual forces of this evening’s other three cantatas.

Barnes Music Festival: Britten Serenade and Dream of Gerontius

The 2025 Barnes Music Festival opens with a captivating evening led by the world-renowned Academy of St Martin in the Fields. The evening begins with Stephen Dodgson’s evocative Essay No. 7, followed by Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings.

On the 29th March, Barnes Music Festival Artistic Director, James Day, conducts the Festival Orchestra, alongside the English Chamber Choir and the Tiffin Chamber Choir semi-chorus for Elgar’s epic The Dream of Gerontius.

Bach Choir: Matthew Passion

The Bach Choir’s annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, sung in English, is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar.

BBC NOW: Missa Solemnise

Standing as a monument to sacred choral works, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is a mass setting of immense weight and scale.

Bach’s St John Passion

Laurence Cummings and AAM bring an Easter tradition to life: a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion.

Garsington Opera: Rodelinda

Handel wrote some of his most beautiful and characterful music for Rodelinda. Hatred and despair, thwarted love and resentment, and a fierce desire for revenge all combine to make a narrative of extraordinary power and potency.