The English Concert
Image credit: © Dario Acosta
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 27 January 2026.
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Handel’s solo cantatas, many of them written during his formative stay in Italy, contain some of his finest music. Lucy Crowe’s recording of the composer’s youthful works with the English Concert was praised by BBC Music Magazine for the ‘imaginative sensitivity’ of the soprano’s interpretations and as being 'well-nigh ideal’ by Gramophone, while Hugh Cutting was described by The Telegraph as ‘a Handelian Puck – entertainingly amoral and mischievous’ while playing Unulfo in Garsington Opera’s Rodelinda.