Cadogan Hall

London Gay Men's Chorus presents Heroes

Music, Musicals, LGBT

A new show by London's Gay Men's Chrous.

Southbank Sinfonia Family Concert: Dance Fever

Led by presenter Richard Sisson and conductor Rebecca Miller, this family-friendly concert features pieces by ‘the kings of rhythm’, Beethoven and Piazzolla, designed to get you dancing in the aisles. There’s a chance to meet the orchestra and take part...

Earth, the Oryx and the Unicorn

Categories, Classical & Opera

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal College of Music Vigala Singers under Barry Wordsworth and David Heath, with Wael Binali, composer, violinist Chloë Hanslip, pianist Amira Fouad, and Gary Kettel, percussion. George Frideric Handel: 'Zadok the...

The Tallis Scholars at 40

Choir, Renaissance music (1400 – 1600)

• Critics' choice

Peter Phillips directs his choir the Tallis Scholars, celebrating its fortieth anniversary year. Gesualdo: 'Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday' Lassus: 'Timor et tremor' Gallus: 'Mirabile Mysterium' De Wert: 'Ascendente Jesu in naviculam' Appenzeller:...

Ed Harcourt

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Singer-songwriter, one-time Mercury nominee and all-round nice guy Harcourt steps behind the piano to play from his seven-album back catalogue, including new record 'Back Into the Woods' (Feb 25).

Beethoven 6

Symphony, Concerto

Orchestra Pro-Musica Uganda under Sir Roger Norrington, with cellist Guy Johnston. Mendelssohn: 'Hebrides Overture' Elgar: Cello Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No 6 ('Pastoral') (In aid of the Kampala Music School’s Tenth Anniversary Appeal.)

Tchaikovsky and Mozart

Orchestral music, Symphony, Song recitals, Classical music (1730 – 1820), Romantic music (1815 – 1910)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Pablo Boggiano, with Ayako Tank (soprano). Mozart: 'Mia speranza adorata', K416 Mozart: 'Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!', K418 Weber: Overture to 'Euryanthe' Mozart: 'Popoli di Tessaglia!', K316 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6...

Stacey Kent

Mainstream jazz, Vocal

• Critics' choice

One of the finest jazz singers on the British scene, US ex-pat Kent performs songs from her back catalogue. That should include classy standards and beguiling French chanson.

A Tribute To Sir Richard Rodney Bennett And Sir George Shearing

Vocal

• Critics' choice

Dazzling virtuoso pianist Gwilym Simcock and bassist Malcolm Creese appear here with The King's Singers to pay tribute to two highly renowned musicians and composers, both of whom passed away in the last couple of years. Radio presenter Brian Kay hosts...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 1: Vilde Frang

Classical & Opera, Music festivals

Ahead of her Proms concerto debut with the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds (Prom 31), Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang explores the cool contours and tart syncopations of Ravel’s jazz-influenced Violin Sonata with German pianist Michail Lifits. An...

Claire Martin

Categories, Jazz and experimental

• Critics' choice

The peerless Martin, a multi-BBC Jazz Award-winner, brings her outstanding technique to bear on softly spoken ballads, powerfully swinging standards, little-known nuggets and funky soul covers. It's all delivered with a true improviser's ear.

BBC PROMS Saturday Matinee 1: Academy of Ancient Music

Chamber, Music festivals, Baroque music (1600 – 1760)

• Critics' choice

Academy of Ancient Music directed by harpsichordist Richard Egarr, with Sophie Bevan (soprano). Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op 6 No 1 Handel: Cantata 'Pensieri notturni di Filli' Valentini: Concerto grosso in A for four violins, Op 7 No 1 Handel: Cantata...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 2: Huelgas Ensemble

Music festivals, Renaissance music (1400 – 1600), Baroque music (1600 – 1760)

• Critics' choice

Continuing the exploration of Polish music in this year’s Proms, Paul Van Nevel and the Flemish singers and instrumentalists of the Huelgas Ensemble explore the little-known choral music of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Poland. Motets by Polish composers...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 3: Britten

Music festivals, Song recitals, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

The mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, tenor James Gilchrist, guitarist Christoph Denoth guitar and pianist Imogen Cooper. Britten: 
Canticle I 'My beloved is mine'A Charm of Lullabies Britten: 
Night Piece (Notturno) (5 mins) Britten: 
Songs from the...

BBC PROMS Saturday Matinee 2: Sarah Connolly sings Britten's 'Phaedra'

Chamber, Music festivals, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

The mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and the Britten Sinfonia under Sian Edwards. Britten: 
Prelude and Fugue Holst: '
St Paul's Suite' Berkeley: 
Four Poems of 'St Teresa of Avila' Tippett: 
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli Britten: '
Phaedra' (Note:...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 4: tenThing

Music festivals, Brass ensembles, Romantic music (1815 – 1910), 20th century music (1900 – 2000), Contemporary music (1975 – present)

Ahead of her Royal Albert Hall concerto debut, the Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth brings her all-female 10-piece brass ensemble tenThing to Cadogan Hall for this colourful Proms Chamber Music Concert. Grieg: 
Holberg Suite – 
Praeludium Grieg:...

BBC PROMS Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland

Music festivals, Orchestral music, String ensembles, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland in its Proms debut with a programme continuing the season’s focus on the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries. With trumpeter Alison Balsom. Britten
: Young Apollo Berkeley: 
Serenade for strings Shostakovich:...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 4: Holst and Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Choir, 20th century music (1900 – 2000), Contemporary music (1975 – present)

The BBC Singers and the Nash Ensemble under Nicholas Kok. Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Group 3 Holst: Hallo, my fancy, whither wilt thou go? Sir Harrison Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem (BBC co-commission with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble:...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 6: The Curlew

Chamber, Music festivals, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

The London Conchord Ensemble, with tenor Robin Tritschler. Poulenc: 
Sextet Holst: 
Phantasy Quartet Warlock: 
'The Curlew' Couperin: 
'Les barricades mistérieuses' (arr Adès)

BBC PROMS Saturday Matinee 4: English Chamber Orchestra

Chamber, Music festivals, Baroque music (1600 – 1760), 20th century music (1900 – 2000), Contemporary music (1975 – present)

The English Chamber Orchestra under Paul Watkins, with horn player Richard Watkins and tenor Ben Johnson. Purcell: 
Chacony (arr Britten) Lutosławski
: 'Paroles tissées' L. Berkeley, Britten, Oldham, Searle, Tippett, Walton: Variations on an Elizabethan...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 7: Elizabeth Maconchy

Music festivals, String ensembles, Romantic music (1815 – 1910), 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

Nearly 21 years after her death, Elizabeth Maconchy remains one of 20th-century Britain’s most alluring forgotten voices. International in outlook, she wrote music of great lyricism and subtlety, closer to the sound-world of Central Europe than to that...

BBC PROMS Saturday Matinee 5: Camerata Nordica

Music festivals, String ensembles, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)

• Critics' choice

Violinist Terje Tønnesen directs Camerata Nordica. With viola player Catherine Bullock. Britten
: 'Simple Symphony' Tippett: 
Little Music for Strings Britten
: Elegy for strings (
World Premiere) Britten: 'Lachrymae' Walton: 
Sonata for Strings (The...

BBC PROMS Chamber Music 8: Dowland

Music festivals, Song recitals, String ensembles

• Critics' choice

Fretwork viol consort, with Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Elizabeth Kenny lute. Dowland: 'The King of Denmark's Galliard' Dowland: 'Can she excuse my wrongs (The Earl of Essex's Galliard)' Dowland: 'Flow, my tears (Lachrimae antiquae)' Dowland: 'My thoughts...