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James Way joins the English Concert for the opening concert of their autumn livestream series, singing selected arias from Handel Solomon together with the composer’s Foundling Hospital Anthem, conducted by Harry Bicket. Elizabeth Watts sings arias from Beethoven Egmont and Ah! Perfido with the Residentie Orkest, conducted by Richard Egarr. Garry Walker conducts performances with his Rheinische Philharmonie in Karlsruhe,...

MRM Artists celebrate a return to the stage this summer as restrictions on live performances are lifted around the globe. Against all the odds, a wave of creativity has sparked new opportunities for conductors, soloists and orchestras to make music together. Mark Padmore joins pianist Mitsuko Uchida for a performance of Franz Schubert’s great Winterreise, as part of the Wigmore...

Tenor Thomas Walker will make his debut at the Staatsoper Berlin on 1 November as Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio, a role he recently performed at the Opéra national de Paris and at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Other plans for this season include Beethoven Missa Solemnis with both the Belgian National Orchestra and Hugh Wolff, and Ensemble Vocal de...

At the 2019 BBC Proms Markus Stenz conducts BBC NOW in Strauss, Brostroem & Brahms, Sunnyboy Dladla sings Mozart Requiem with BBC NOW with Natalie Stutzman, Hilary Summers sings Beethoven Symphony No.9 with BBC SO under Sakari Oramo, as well as Handel’s Jephtha with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr, Andrew Tortise sings Bach Cantatas with Solomon’s Knot, and Elizabeth Watts...

Tenor Thomas Walker makes his début at the Opéra national de Paris in January singing Adam in a new production by Romeo Castellucci of Scarlatti's Il Primo Omicidio conducted by René Jacobs, a role he will reprise later in the season in concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and on stage at the Staastoper Berlin. A fine Handel singer, Thomas’s 2018/19...