As the holiday season approaches, Rayfield Allied artists perform in concerts worldwide featuring such advent classics as Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio and celebrating the New Year.
Highlights include:
Peter Harvey performs Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Thomanerchor Leipzig at Berlin's Konzerthaus with the Konzerthaus Orchester 6-8 December.
James Way performs Handel's Messiah on a European tour with The English Concert.
Christian Curnyn conducts the Ulster Orchestra in their performance of Handel's Messiah, featuring soloist Katie Bray.
Nicholas Mulroy performs a Christmas programme of Schütz and Praetorius with Arcangelo in Belgium, Cambridge and London.
Helen Charlston sings Bach's Christmas Oratorio with WDR Köln at the Kölner Philharmonie.
More information and tickets below:
4, 6 December - Alberto Miguélez Rouco / Christmas cantatas by Francisco Corselli with Los Elementos / Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid
5 December - Nicholas Mulroy / Handel's Messiah with the London Handel Festival / St George's, Hanover Square
6,7,8 December - Peter Harvey / Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin / Berlin Konzerthaus
6 December - Matthew Brook and Nick Pritchard / Handel Messiah with Tenebrae & Academy of Ancient Music / Kurhaus Wiesbaden
7 December - Matthew Brook and Nick Pritchard / Handel Messiah with Tenebrae & Academy of Ancient Music / Concertgebouw Amsterdam
7 December - Laurence Cummings / Christmas Concert with the Tonkunstler Orchestra in Grafenegg / Grafenegg Wolkenturm, Austria
7 December - Barokksolistene / The Alehouse Sessions with through the noise, Village Underground / Village Underground, London
8 December - Matthew Brook and Nick Pritchard / Handel Messiah with Tenebrae & Academy of Ancient Music / SPOT Groningen
9 December - Katie Bray / Handel Messiah with Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford / Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
9 December - James Way / Handel Messiah with the English Concert / Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid
10 December - Mhairi Lawson / Handel Messiah with Queen’s College Oxford & Academy of Ancient Music / Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
10,12 - David Soar / Handel Messiah with New York Baroque Incorporated / St Thomas Church, New York
11 December - Nicholas McGegan / Handel Messiah with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Lighthouse, Poole
11, 12 December - Julia Sporsén / ‘Brilliant Christmas with GWO and friends’ with Göteborg Wind Orchestra / Haga Konserthall, Sweden
12 December - Katie Bray, James Way / Handel Messiah with the English Concert / Turner Sims, Southampton
12 December - Nicholas Mulroy / The Christmas Story with Arcangelo / DE SINGEL, Belgium
12, 14 December - Helen Charlston / Bach Christmas Oratorio with WDR Köln / Kölner Philharmonie
12 December - Fflur Wyn & Joshua Ellicott / Handel Messiah with BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
13 December - Nicholas Mulroy / The Christmas Story with Arcangelo / Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
13 December - Matthew Brook / Messiah with the Philharmonia / Royal Festival Hall, London
13 December - The Cardinall’s Musick / 'Mirabile Mysterium' / Wigmore Hall, London
14,15 December - Christian Curnyn, Katie Bray / Handel Messiah with the Ulster Orchestra / Waterfront Hall, Belfast
15 December - Matthew Brook and Nick Pritchard / Handel Messiah with Tenebrae & Academy of Ancient Music / Saffron Hall
15 December - Nicholas Mulroy / The Christmas Story with Arcangelo / Wigmore Hall, London
15 December - James Way / Handel Messiah with the English Concert / New Giovanni da Udine Theater, Italy
16 December - Laurence Cummings and Nick Pritchard / Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music / Barbican Centre, London
17 December – Matthew Brook & Helen Charlston / Messiah with the Dunedin Consort / St Aloysius Church Glasgow
18 December – Matthew Brook & Helen Charlston / Messiah with the Dunedin Consort / The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh
18 December - Nicholas McGegan/ Antwerp Symphony Orchestra Christmas Gala / Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp
18 December - James Way / Handel Messiah with the English Concert / Kursaal Donostia San Sebastián, Spain
19, 20 December - Alberto Miguélez Rouco / Messiah & Vivaldi's Gloria with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia / Auditorio de Galicia Santiago de Compostela
20, 21, 22 December - Xavier Sabata / Messiah with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España / Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid
21 December – Matthew Brook & Helen Charlston / Messiah with the Dunedin Consort / De Singel Muziekstudio Antwerp
21 December - Nicholas Mulroy / Handel Messiah with Huddersfield Choral Society / Huddersfield Town Hall
21 December - Katie Bray, James Way / Wigmore Christmas Concert with the English Concert / Wigmore Hall, London
21 December - Gothic Voices / 'Nowel syng we bothe al and som' for the Georgian Concert Society / St Andrew's and St George's West Church Edinburgh
22 December - Carolyn Sampson / Bach Christmas Oratorio with Münchener Bach-Orchester / Isarphilharmonie, Munich
22,23 December - Laurence Cummings / Handel Messiah with Orquestra Barroca / Sala Suggia, Porto, Portugal
23 December - Matthew Brook & Helen Charlston / ‘An Italian Christmas’ with the Dunedin Consort / Wigmore Hall, London
1 January - Sylvia Schwartz / New Year Gala with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Usher Hall, Edinburgh
2 January - Ruby Hughes, Nicholas Mulroy, Stephan Loges / Handel Messiah with Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
3 January - Sylvia Schwartz / New Year Gala with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Ayr Town Hall, Ayr
4 January - Francesca Chiejina / Viennese New Year with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Forum Theatre, Malvern
4 January - Sylvia Schwartz / New Year Gala with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries
5 January - Jakob Lehmann / New Year’s Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchester / Musikverein Vienna
5 January - Francesca Chiejina / Viennese New Year with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / CBSO Centre, Birmingham
6 January - Jakob Lehmann / New Year’s Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchester / Festspielhaus St Poelten
9 January - Jakob Lehmann / New Year’s Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchester / Mehrzweckhalle Breitenfurt
11 January - James Way / Handel Messiah with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
11 January - Jakob Lehmann / New Year’s Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchester / Neue Mittelschule Neulengbach
12 January - Jakob Lehmann / New Year’s Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchester / Stadttheater Wiener Neustadt
