Name: New Year’s Eve Gala: Iestyn Davies and The English Concert
Start: 2025-12-31T19:00:00
Location: Wigmore Hall

The English Concert is set to deliver an extraordinary line-up for 2025-2026, featuring timeless masterpieces and celebrated artists. From Handel's riveting operas to Beethoven's symphonies, the season promises emotions ranging from love and jealousy to triumph and despair. Highlights include stunning performances at the iconic venues of Wormsley, Wigmore Hall, and Westminster Abbey. With renowned figures such as Peter Whelan and Iestyn Davies performing, attendees will embark on a musical journey through time and emotion, celebrating the depths of human spirit and artistic expression.

A Year of Artistic Triumphs: The English Concert's 2025-2026 Season

From the passionate arias of Handel's Rodelinda to the robust declarations of Beethoven's Fidelio, The English Concert's 2025-26 season promises a journey through time and emotion. This season, the orchestra collaborates with renowned artists like Peter Whelan, Lucy Crowe, and Iestyn Davies, bringing to life classical operas and concertos in prestigious venues across the globe. As they revive these historic works, The English Concert reaffirms its place as a beacon of classical performance.

The English Concert's 2025-26 Season: A Symphony of Masterpieces

Iestyn Davies

The English Concert

A celebration of the work of three members of the Restoration Chapel Royal: Pelham Humfrey, John Blow and their younger contemporary Henry Purcell. Humfrey’s verse anthem ‘Lift up your heads’, a rousing setting of verses from Psalm 24, and Blow’s stately ‘I was glad’ for choir, strings and trumpets set the scene for Purcell’s peerless ode to music’s patron saint.

Music of the Restoration Chapel Royal with Amy Carson, Alexander Chance, and Anthony Gregory

Wigmore Hall

The Grammy award winning countertenor raises the curtain on his Wigmore Hall residency with a special New Year’s Eve gala concert. Celebrate the new year with this magnificent collision of two of early music’s most renowned institutions, Iestyn Davies and The English Concert.

New Year’s Eve Gala: Iestyn Davies and The English Concert

Fresh from battle, Hercules returns home victorious, but Dejanira is consumed by a jealousy that sets off a tragic chain of events. With Handel’s soaring arias, inventive chromaticism, and powerful choruses, this opera reminds us that mistrust can bring even the mightiest to their knees. Thomas Broughton’s libretto draws from Ovid and Sophocles, with the chorus commenting on events as they unfold like a Greek tragedy. Harry Bicket and The English Concert tour the US, in collaboration once again with the scintillating Clarion Choir directed by Steven Fox.

New Year’s Eve Gala: Iestyn Davies and The English Concert

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