Performer: Mark Padmore

This Evangelist had just come straight from Golgotha, where he had witnessed events so momentous he was compelled to recount them at once.

The British tenor, partnered by Mitsuko Uchida, closed Wigmore Hall’s three-week festival of lunchtime recitals with a peak of the vocal repertoire.

Benjamin Britten's final opera hasn't been staged by The Royal Opera in over 25 years, but his setting of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice receives a great new production by Sir David McVicar. 

Challenging and vivid Bach in the first UK showing of Peter Sellars' staging of Bach's great liturgical masterpiece.

Bernard Haitink celebrated an early 90th birthday conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a searching, joyous account of Beethoven's “Choral” Symphony.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Choir and an ideal team of soloists in a memorable performance of Britten's War Requiem.