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 three of early music’s most renowned institutions, Iestyn Davies, The English Concert, and Lars Ulrik Mortensen, who will join as director for this concert.

Programme – all J. S. Bach

Kanon zu acht Stimmen BWV1072
Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat BWV1051
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV140
–Mein Freund ist mein
Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind BWV153:
–Soll ich meinen Lebenslauf

Interval

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048
Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV170