We’re delighted to hear that the Alyth Choral Society will be giving a performance of The Seasons on 8 December. Tickets are available via Ticketsource.

Over this long weekend, a series of three concerts from Baroquestock in Hampstead, London. More via https://www.baroquestock.com/

We are very happy to, once again, support our friends up in Bridgnorth in their annual English Haydn Festival.

Today, the anniversary of Haydn’s death, falls in the same week as a significant birthday for the director of the Haydn Society of Great Britain, Professor Denis Mccaldin (pictured here with the plaque that he put up in London in 2015). Many happy returns!

In a fortnight the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Merton College Choir perform Haydn’s Creation in the Sheldonian Theatre, the building in which Haydn received an honorary doctorate in 1791.

The OPO says, “In 1791, Joseph Haydn was overwhelmed by a performance of Handel’s Messiah in London. As he prepared to return home, Haydn was slipped a libretto on the subject of the creation of the universe originally conceived for Handel. When The Creation was first performed seven years later, Haydn was overcome yet again – this time by his own achievements. In representing chaos and the creation of light, the oratorio’s elemental inspiration transcends the boundaries of its era.”

The performance will be conducted by the orchestra’s music director Marios Papadopoulos.