Academy of Ancient Music

“up there in the Billboard charts with Pavarotti recitals...”

SIR NICHOLAS KENYON, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 2011

Upcoming

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Scholl sings Handel, Haydn and Mozart

Monday 6 May, 8.00pm

We perform arias, lieder, a symphony and a piano concerto. Recorded live at NCH Dublin and broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM.

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Latest podcast...

Christopher Hogwood discusses Handel

Catherine Bott presents the latest Barbican podcast, ahead of our performance of Imeneo

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Latest review...

JS Bach's St John Passion

"pity, terror, consolation, even a dash of anticipatory joy. The fireworks of Easter can only seem tawdry by comparison"

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Latest news...

AAM announced as National Gallery's Resident Ensemble

We will be Resident Ensemble at the National Gallery in Summer 2013, accompanying the exhibition 'Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure'

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New release...

Mozart Requiem

With the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, featuring alternative completions and documentary material

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Latest blog...

Singing the passions

Should we observe Bach's passions from a distance or get caught up in the drama? Bass soloist Christopher Purves reflects.

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Next concerts...

Handel's Imeneo

AAM founder Christopher Hogwood returns to direct Handel's 'farewell to Italian opera' in Madrid and London

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Latest film...

JS Bach's Easter Oratorio

Watch us rehearsing the Sinfonia to JS Bach's Easter Oratorio in King's College Chapel, Cambridge

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