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Artistic Director | David Bates

"Surely Britain's most exciting Baroque orchestra, conducted with total commitment by David Bates" Stephen Pritchard, The Observer

Sat, 31 Oct31 Oct 2026, 19:00 – 21:00Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA, UKBy turns radiant, intimate, exhilarating, and profound, the Mass in B minor stands among Bach’s greatest achievements in sacred music, bringing together virtuosic choruses and expressive arias in a work of extraordinary spiritual and emotional range.
Sat, 28 Nov28 Nov 2026, 13:00 – 14:00Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPThe music of Tom Coult imagines new worlds – sensuous and strange, delicate and playful, rich and full of wonder. In this new work for the final concert in Wigmore Hall’s Voices of Today series, an old American ballad is filtered through the rhetoric of German Baroque music.
Fri, 19 Feb19 Feb 2027, 19:30 – 21:30Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPMonteverdi drew withering criticism from conservative contemporaries for what they saw as the ‘imperfections’ of his modern music. The composer’s expressive voice sets the mood this evening and runs through La Nuova Musica’s programme, connecting pieces from 17th-century Italy to the 20th century.
Multiple DatesThu, 15 Apr15 Apr 2027, 19:00 – 21:00Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UKAci, Galatea e Polifemo is one of Handel's most emotive and daring works: an ancient Greek tale portraying the intensity of young love and how it collides with a world that seeks to control and destroy it, leading to tragic and heartbreaking consequences.
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