The English Concert receives grant from the Government Culture Recovery Fund

The English Concert to receive £115,000 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The English Concert is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund This award will help The English Concert return strongly as the opportunities for live performance improve and bring its exceptional music …

In conversation with Lucy Crowe

We met with Lucy Crowe during our recording of Rodelinda. We talked about what she got up to during lockdown, our upcoming programme, Handel – The Italian on the 9th of October, and realising your dreams.

Help us record Handel’s Tamerlano

Following from our recording of Handel’s Rodelinda in September, we are announcing an ambitious plan to record the next instalment of our Handel opera cycle Tamerlano. We have a sensational cast including Bejun Mehta, Sophie Bevan and Michael Spyres, set to dazzle like the superstar singers Handel wrote it for. Our musicians have suffered enormous losses during the pandemic.

Britain’s Orpheus – Press Release

The English Concert with artistic director Harry Bicket is delighted to announce a series of concerts from 1-15 October 2020. The concerts take place in historic venues with star soloists and will be performed and streamed live to a paying audience at 7pm GMT on each performance date. The programmes include first-class vocal and instrumental works from the two pillars of the English Baroque, covering different aspects of the repertoire.