This Christmas, Rayfield Allied artists will once again be performing popular advent repertoire around the world. This season features multiple performances of Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio, as well as other concerts featuring new compositions, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, and Bach's Cantatas.
Both at home and further afield, there are multiple opportunities to hear the world-class offerings of RA artists. From all of us here, have a happy and musical festive season.
A full calendar of Christmas events can be seen below:
1 December - Messiah / Nick Pritchard at The Queen's College
2 December - New Carol 'O Sapientia' World Premiere Performance / Héloïse Werner at St Paul's Advent Service
3 December - New Carol 'O Sapientia' Performance / Héloïse Werner at St Paul's Advent Service
5 December - Messiah / Matthew Brook and Helen Charlston with The Sixteen
7 December - Messiah / Fflur Wyn and Laurence Cummings at the London Handel Festival
8, 9 December - Messiah / Joshua Ellicott with the Ulster Orchestra
8 December - Messiah / Nicholas Mulroy with the City of Birmingham Choir
9 December - Messiah / Nicholas Mogg and Mhairi Lawson at Wells Cathedral
9 December - Messiah / Matthew Brook with the Hallé
9 December - Messiah / Nicholas Mulroy with the City of Birmingham Choir
10 December - Messiah / Anna Harvey with the Nederlandse Reisopera
11 December - Messiah / Nick Pritchard with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
10, 12 December - Messiah / Helen Charlston with Britten Sinfonia
14 December - Messiah / Christian Curnyn and James Way with the Aalborg Symphony
14 December - Messiah / Vartan Gabrielian with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
14, 15, 16 December - 'Nowell synge we al and som' / Gothic Voices at Salle Bourgie, ArtSpring & Early Music Society of the Islands
14 December - Messiah / Robin Johannsen with the National Symphony Orchestra
15, 16 December - Messiah / Hilary Summers and Nicholas Mogg with Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
15 December - Kantate BWV 62 / Peter Harvey at the Bachstiftung St. Gallen
15 December - Messiah / Christian Curnyn and James Way with the Aalborg Symphony
15 December - Messiah / Caitlin Hulcup and Mhairi Lawson with the Orquesta de Castilla y León
15 December - Messiah / Robin Johannsen with the National Symphony Orchestra
15 December - Messiah / Vartan Gabrielian with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
15, 16 December - Messiah / Helen Charlston with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
15 December - The Creation / Nick Pritchard at Glyndebourne
16 December - Messiah / Christian Curnyn and James Way with the Aalborg Symphony
16, 17 December - Christmas Oratorio / Joshua Ellicott with Les Passions de l'Ame
16 December - Messiah / Robin Johannsen with the National Symphony Orchestra
16 December - Christmas Oratorio / Alberto Miguélez Rouco at the Singknaben der St. Ursenkathedrale Solothurn
17 December - Messiah / Matthew Brook and Nicholas Mulroy with English Concert
17 December - Messiah / Robin Johannsen with the National Symphony Orchestra
18, 19 December - Messiah / Lotte Betts-Dean and Dingle Yandell with Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and the Chamber Choir of Ireland
18 December - Messiah / Xavier Sabata at Teatro Colon
19, 20, 21 December - Messiah / Matthew Brook with the Dunedin Consort
19 December - Christmas Oratorio / Peter Harvey with La Chapelle Harmonique at Eglise Saint-Genès-des-Carmes
20 December - Messiah / Alexandra Oomens, Helen Charlston and James Way with the Huddersfield Choral Society
20, 21 December - Magnificat / Laurence Cummings at Casa da Musica
20 December - Christmas Oratorio / Peter Harvey with La Chapelle Harmonique at Grand Théâtre de la Coursive
21 December - Christmas Concert / Christian Curnyn with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
21 December - Missa Solemnis / Ilker Arcayürek with the Munich Philharmonic
21 December - Christmas Oratorio / Peter Harvey with La Chapelle Harmonique at Théâtre Sénart
22 December - Christmas Concert / Christian Curnyn with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
22 December - Missa Solemnis / Ilker Arcayürek with the Munich Philharmonic
22 December - Christmas Oratorio / Peter Harvey with La Chapelle Harmonique at Chapelle Royale, Château de Versailles
23 December - 'Nowell synge we al and som' / Gothic Voices at Het Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
23 December - Christmas Oratorio / Peter Harvey with La Chapelle Harmonique at Opéra de Limoges
23 December - Messiah / Nick Pritchard with the Flemish Radio Choir
31 December - Francesca Chiejina (Soloist) in Sinfonia Viva's New Year's Eve Gala at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
4, 5, 6 January - Messiah / Matthew Brook, Carolyn Sampson, and Helen Charlston with the Czech Philharmonic
6 January - Christmas Oratorio / Nick Pritchard with the Oxford Bach Soloists
